My Bondage and My Freedom
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1. Front matter2. CONTENTS3. EDITOR’S PREFACE4. INTRODUCTION5. CHAPTER I. Childhood6. CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home7. CHAPTER III. Parentage8. CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation9. CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery10. CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation11. CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House12. CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors13. CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment14. CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore15. CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”16. CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened17. CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life18. CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s19. CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker20. CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice21. CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging22. CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties23. CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot24. CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life25. CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery26. CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained27. CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists28. CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain29. CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents30. RECEPTION SPEECH 10. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12,31. Dr. Campbell’s Reply32. LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld33. THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,34. INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,35. WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. Extract from an Oration, at36. THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July37. THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S.38. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various39. FOOTNOTES