- 1Introduction
- 2Life as a Slave
- 3Chapter II — Removal From Grandmother’s
- 4Chapter III — Troubles of Childhood
- 5Chapter IV — A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
- 6Chapter V — A Slaveholder’s Character
- 7Chapter VI — A Child’s Reasoning
- 8Chapter VII — Luxuries at the Great House
- 9Chapter VIII — Characteristics of Overseers
- 10Chapter IX — Change of Location
- 11Chapter X — Learning to Read
- 12Chapter XI — Growing in Knowledge
- 13Chapter XII — Religious Nature Awakened
- 14Chapter XIII — The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
- 15Chapter XIV — Experience in St. Michaels
- 16Chapter XV — Covey, the Negro Breaker
- 17Chapter XVI — Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice
- 18Chapter XVII — The Last Flogging
- 19Chapter XVIII — New Relations and Duties
- 20Chapter XIX — The Runaway Plot
- 21Chapter XX — Apprenticeship Life
- 22Chapter XXI — Escape From Slavery
- 23Second Part
- 24Chapter II — Life as a Freeman
- 25Chapter III — Introduced to the Abolitionists
- 26Chapter IV — Recollections of Old Friends
- 27Chapter V — One Hundred Conventions
- 28Chapter VI — Impressions Abroad
- 29Chapter VII — Triumphs and Trials
- 30Chapter VIII — John Brown and Mrs. Stowe
- 31Chapter IX — Increasing Demands of the Slave Power
- 32Chapter X — The Beginning of the End
- 33Chapter XI — Secession and War
- 34Chapter XII — Hope for the Nation
- 35Chapter XIII — Vast Changes
- 36Chapter XIV — Living and Learning
- 37Chapter XV — Weighed in the Balance
- 38Chapter XVI — “Time Makes All Things Even”
- 39Chapter XVII — Incidents and Events
- 40Chapter XVIII — “Honor to Whom Honor”
- 41Chapter XIX — Retrospection
- 42Conclusion
- 43Appendix
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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