My Bondage and My Freedom
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CONTENTS
| MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM |
| 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 |
| LIFE as a FREEMAN |
| CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained |
| CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists |
| CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain |
| CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents |
| RECEPTION SPEECH [10].At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, |
| Dr. Campbell’s Reply |
| LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER.[11].To My Old Master, Thomas Auld |
| THE NATURE OF SLAVERY.Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, |
| INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY.Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, |
| WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?.Extract from an Oration, at |
| THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE.Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July |
| THE SLAVERY PARTY.Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A.A.S. |
| THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT.Extracts from a Lecture before Various |
| FOOTNOTES |