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Project Gutenberg edition · 2008

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

28 texts · about 626 minutes · source text with editorial apparatus kept separate

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Contents

28 texts

01Front matter6 min
02INTRODUCTION28 min
03CHAPTER I. _Childhood_12 min
04CHAPTER II. _Removed from My First Home_9 min
05CHAPTER III. _Parentage_13 min
06CHAPTER IV. _A General Survey of the Slave Plantation_23 min
07CHAPTER V. _Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery_12 min
08CHAPTER VI. _Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation_23 min
09CHAPTER VII. _Life in the Great House_15 min
10CHAPTER VIII. _A Chapter of Horrors_12 min
11CHAPTER IX. _Personal Treatment_15 min
12CHAPTER X. _Life in Baltimore_13 min
13CHAPTER XI. _“A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”_15 min
14CHAPTER XII. _Religious Nature Awakened_13 min
15CHAPTER XIII. _The Vicissitudes of Slave Life_15 min
16CHAPTER XIV. _Experience in St. Michael’s_26 min
17CHAPTER XV. _Covey, the Negro Breaker_24 min
18CHAPTER XVI. _Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice_14 min
19CHAPTER XVII. _The Last Flogging_22 min
20CHAPTER XVIII. _New Relations and Duties_26 min
21CHAPTER XIX. _The Run-Away Plot_43 min
22CHAPTER XX. _Apprenticeship Life_22 min
23CHAPTER XXI. _My Escape from Slavery_18 min
24CHAPTER XXII. _Liberty Attained_28 min
25CHAPTER XXIII. _Introduced to the Abolitionists_10 min
26CHAPTER XXIV. _Twenty-One Months in Great Britain_35 min
27CHAPTER XXV. _Various Incidents_47 min
28LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld87 min

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