The Essential Works of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass

iron jaws, And waved their children-stealing paws; There sat their children in gewgaws; By stinting negroes' backs and maws, They kept up heavenly union. "All good from Jack another takes, And entertains their flirts and rakes, Who dress as sleek as glossy snakes, And cram their mouths with sweetened cakes; And this goes down for union."

      Sincerely and earnestly hoping that this little book may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system, and hastening the glad day of deliverance to the millions of my brethren in bonds—faithfully relying upon the power of truth, love, and justice, for success in my humble efforts—and solemnly pledging my self anew to the sacred cause,—I subscribe myself,

      FREDERICK DOUGLASS.

       LYNN, Mass., April 28, 1845.

      My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)

       Table of Contents

       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

       CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained

       CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists

       CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain

       CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents

       RECEPTION SPEECH

       Dr. Campbell’s Reply

       LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER To My Old Master, Thomas Auld

       THE NATURE OF SLAVERY

       INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY

       WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?

       THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE

       THE SLAVERY PARTY

       THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT