
Frederick Douglass · c. 1818 – 1895
Narrative of the Life (incl. Appendix on Christianity); "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
1845; 1852 · Original editions
23pages in 2 volumes
10 h 48 minreading time
20passages linked to Scripture
29links to verses
Contents
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFREDERICK DOUGLASS.pages 1–5
My Bondage and My FreedomBy Frederick Douglass – LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auldpages 6–23
- By Frederick Douglass6
- EDITOR’S PREFACE6
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS6
- CHAPTER I. Childhood6
- CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home6
- CHAPTER III. Parentage6
- CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation7
- CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery7
- CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation8
- CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House8
- CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors9
- CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment9
- CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore10
- CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”10
- CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened11
- CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life11
- CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s12
- CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker13
- CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice13
- CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging14
- CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties14
- CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot15
- CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life16
- CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery16
- CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained17
- CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists18
- CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain18
- CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents19
- LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. 11. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld20
- THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,20
- INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester,21
- THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July21
- Society, in New York, May, 1853.22
- THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various22
- FOOTNOTES23