My Bondage and My Freedom

1855

Douglass's second autobiography, published in 1855, far longer and more analytical than the 1845 Narrative. It covers his childhood on the Lloyd plantation, the fight with Covey, his escape and his years as an abolitionist speaker, and closes with nine appendices of his speeches and his letter to his former master.

Editor’s Preface
Introduction
Chapter I Childhood
Chapter II Removed from My First Home
Chapter III Parentage
Chapter IV A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
Chapter V Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery
Chapter VI Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation
Chapter VII Life in the Great House
Chapter VIII A Chapter of Horrors
Chapter IX Personal Treatment
Chapter X Life in Baltimore
Chapter XI “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”
Chapter XII Religious Nature Awakened
Chapter XIII The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
Chapter XIV Experience in St. Michael’s
Chapter XV Covey, the Negro Breaker
Chapter XVI Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice
Chapter XVII The Last Flogging
Chapter XVIII New Relations and Duties
Chapter XIX The Run-Away Plot
Chapter XX Apprenticeship Life
Chapter XXI My Escape from Slavery
Chapter XXII Liberty Attained
Chapter XXIII Introduced to the Abolitionists
Chapter XXIV Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
Chapter XXV Various Incidents
Reception Speech
Dr. Campbell’s Reply
Letter to His Old Master
The Nature of Slavery
Inhumanity of Slavery
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
The Internal Slave Trade
The Slavery Party
The Anti-Slavery Movement