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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
CONTENTS

XVII--THE LAST FLOCCING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
XVIII--NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
XIX--THE RUN-AWAY PLOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
XX--APPRENTICESHIP