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Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would escape and gain his freedom by his 20th birthday. But rather than be content with his own liberty, he worked to gain attention for the cause of abolition, or the end of slavery. He was particularly gifted in his use of both the written and spoken word, making many doubt that he was ever a slave.
"My Bondage and My Freedom", published in 1855, is an example of a genre of literature known as the slave narrative. This genre flourished from around 1760 and though the first few decades after the abolition of slavery. One of the most famous examples is the interesting "Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano", but the most famous writer of a slave a narrative almost certainly has to be Frederick Douglas. So much did the iconoclastic Douglass have to share about the reality of slavery that "My Bondage and My Freedom" is actually his second publication. The first—and more famous—is his groundbreaking "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself".
Technically, "My Bondage and My Freedom" is considered a revised and expanded version of that original publication in that it serves to update readers on what has occurred in the decade since the earlier narrative was published. These additions are primarily focused on his encounter with racism in the northern states, his activism in the name of abolition, most significantly, his decision to break away from William Lloyd Garrison and the white abolitionist leaders to establish the primacy of the black voice in the call to end slavery.
Central to this slave narrative if Douglass’ fervent expression of his contention that the institutions of slavery corrupts and dehumanises not just the slave, but the slaveowner and non-slaveholder who condones the practice.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, History, Psychology
Length14 hrs 11 mins
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Publish dateMar 16, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM
2Editor's Preface
3Introduction
4Chapter 1. Childhood
5Chapter 2. Removed From My First Home
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6Chapter 3. Parentage
7Chapter 4. A General Survey Of The Slave Plantation
8Chapter 5. Gradual Initiation To The Mysteries Of Slavery
9Chapter 6. Treatment Of Slaves On Lloyd's Plantation
10Chapter 7. Life In The Great House
11Chapter 8. A Chapter Of Horrors
12Chapter 9. Personal Treatment
13Chapter 10. Life In Baltimore
14Chapter 11. "A Change Came O'er The Spirit Of My Dream"
15Chapter 12. Religious Nature Awakened
16Chapter 13. The Vicissitudes Of Slave Life
17Chapter 14. Experience In St. Michael's
18Chapter 15. Covey, The Negro Breaker
19Chapter 16. Another Pressure Of The Tyrant's Vice
20Chapter 17. The Last Flogging
21Chapter 18. New Relations And Duties
22Chapter 19. The Run-Away Plot
23Chapter 20. Apprenticeship Life
24Chapter 21. My Escape From Slavery
25Chapter 22. Liberty Attained
26Chapter 23. Introduced To The Abolitionists
27Chapter 24. Twenty-One Months In Great Britain
28Chapter 25. Various Incidents
29Reception Speech. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, 1846
30Dr. Campbell's Reply
31Letter To His Old Master. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
32The Nature Of Slavery. Extract From A Lecture On Slavery, At Rochester, December 1, 1850
33Inhumanity Of Slavery. Extract From A Lecture On Slavery, At Rochester, December 8, 1850
34What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?. Extract From An Oration, At Rochester, July 5, 1852
35The Internal Slave Trade. Extract From An Oration, At Rochester, July 5, 1852
36The Slavery Party. Extract From A Speech Delivered Before The A. A. S. Society, In New York, May, 1853
37The Anti-Slavery Movement. Extracts From A Lecture Before Various Anti-Slavery Bodies, In The Winter Of 1855
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