Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM
6. Introduction 1
7. Editor’s Preface 5
8. Introduction 9
9. LIFE AS A SLAVE
10. Chapter I. The Author’s Childhood 29
11. Chapter II. The Author Removed from His First Home 37
12. Chapter III. The Author’s Parentage 43
13. Chapter IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation 51
14. Chapter V. Gradual Initiation Into the Mysteries of Slavery 65
15. Chapter VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation 73
16. Chapter VII. Life in the Great House 87
17. Chapter VIII. A Chapter of Horrors 97
18. Chapter IX. Personal Treatment of the Author 105
19. Chapter X. Life in Baltimore 114
20. Chapter XI. ‘‘A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream.’’ 122
21. Chapter XII. Religious Nature Awakened 132
22. Chapter XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life 140
23. Chapter XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s 150
24. Chapter XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker 165
25. Chapter XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice 179
26. Chapter XVII. The Last Flogging 187
27. Chapter XVIII. New Relations and Duties 200
28. Chapter XIX. The Run-away Plot 216
29. Chapter XX. Apprenticeship Life 242
30. Chapter XXI. My Escape from Slavery 255
31. LIFE AS A FREEMAN
32. Chapter XXII. Liberty Attained 269
33. Chapter XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists 286
34. Chapter XXIV. Twenty-one Months in Great Britain 292
35. Chapter XXV. Various Incidents 314
36. APPENDIX, CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES, ETC.
37. Reception Speech at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, 1846 329
38. Letter to His Old Master 345
39. The Nature of Slavery 354
40. Inhumanity of Slavery 361
41. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? 368
42. The Internal Slave Trade 374
43. The Slavery Party 379
44. The Anti-Slavery Movement 386