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MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM By FREDERICK DOUGLASS By a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING. COLERIDGE
Entered according to Act of Congress in 1855 by Frederick Douglass in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York
TO HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH, AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF ESTEEM FOR HIS CHARACTER, ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND BENEVOLENCE, AFFECTION FOR HIS PERSON, AND GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP, AND AS A Small but most Sincere Acknowledgement of HIS PRE-EMINENT SERVICES IN BEHALF OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUTRAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PIRACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE, This Volume is Respectfully Dedicated, BY HIS FAITHFUL AND FIRMLY ATTACHED FRIEND, FREDERICK DOUGLAS. ROCHESTER, N.Y.

CONTENTS
EDITORS PREFACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
LIFE AS A SLAVE?
I--CHILDHOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 II--REMOVED FROM MY FIRST HOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 III--PARENTAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 IV--A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SLAVE PLANTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 V--GRADUAL INITIATION INTO THE MYSTERIES OF SLAVERY. . . . . . . . . 61 VI--TREATMENT OF SLAVES ON LLOYDS PLANTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 VII--LIFE IN THE GREAT HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 VIII--A CHAPTER OF HORRORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 IX--PERSONAL TREATMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 X--LIFE IN BALTIMORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 XI--"A CHANGE CAME O'ER THE SPIRIT OF MY DREAM". . . . . . . . . . .118 XII--RELIGIOUS NATURE AWAKENED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127 XIII--THE VICISSITUDES OF SLAVE LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135 XIV--EXPERIENCE IN ST. MICHAEL'S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144 XV--COVEY, THE NEGRO BREAKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159 XVI--ANOTHER PRESSURE OF THE TYRANTS VICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
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XVII--THE LAST FLOCCING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180 XVIII--NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194 XIX--THE RUN-AWAY PLOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209 XX--APPRENTICESHIP LIFE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235 XXI--MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248
LIFE AS A FREEMAN XXII--LIBERTY ATTAINED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .