My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"Show More" for Chapter info. Douglass escaped slavery in 1838, becoming a famous abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as American citizens and that "subordination to the superior race, is a slave's natural and normal condition." "My Bondage and My Freedom" is an eloquent account by Douglass himself, and should be read by all those who desire to comprehend the hated institution of slavery, its defense by the South and the terrible war that followed. Douglass, who died in 1895, was never sure of his exact age, but thought it to be 74 at the time of his death. Narrated by Rick Kissner - 1. Childhood 00:00 2. Removed from my first home 16:07 3. Parentage 28:27 4. A general survey of the slave plantation 46:03 5. Gradual initiation to the mysteries of slavery 1:16:04 6. Treatment of slaves on lloyds plantation 1:31:40 7. Life in the great house 2:00:06 8. A chapter of horrors 2:19:42 9. Personal treatment 2:34:31 10. Life in baltimore 2:52:19 11. A change came oer the spirit of my dream 3:07:53 12. Religious nature awakened 3:26:09 13. The vicissitudes of slave life 3:41:44 14. Experience in St Michaels 4:00:17 15. Covey the negro breaker 4:31:07 16. Another pressure of the tyrants vice 4:59:22 17. The last flogging 5:15:37 18. New relations and duties 5:40:57 19. The runaway plot 6:12:00 20. Apprenticeship life 7:04:07 21. My escape from slavery 7:30:24 22. Liberty attained 7:51:44 23. Introduced to the abolitionists 8:24:49 24. Twenty One Months in Great Britain 8:37:00 25. Various Incidents 9:17:39