Identifier: mybondagemyfreed00indoug (find matches)
Title: My bondage and my freedom
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Slavery Antislavery movements
Publisher: New York : Miller
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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o has rent his ownbonds, and who, in his every relation—as a public man, as a husbandand as a father—is such as does honor to the land which gave himbirth. I shall place this book in the hands of the only child sparedme, bidding him to strive and emulate its noble example. Youmay do likewise. It is an American book, for Americans, in thefullest sense of the idea. It shows that the worst of our institutions,in its worst aspect, cannot keep down energy, truthfulness, andearnest struggle for the right. It proves the justice and practica-bility of Immediate Emancipation. It shows that any man in ourland, no matter in what battle his liberty may have been clovendown, * * * * no matter what complexion an Indian or anAfrican sun may have burned upon him, not only may standforth redeemed and disenthralled. but may also stand up a candi-date for the highest suffrage of a great people—the tribute of theirhonest, hearty admiration. Reader, Vale I New York, May 2S, 1855. James WCvtnt Smith.
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LIFE AS A SLAYE CHAPTEE I. THE AUTHORS CHILDHOOD. PLACE OF BIRTH CHARACTER OF THE DISTRICT TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME CHOPTANK RIVER TIME OF BIRTH—GENEALOGICAL TREES MODS OF COUNTING TIME NAMES OF GRANDPARENTS THEIR POSITION GRAND-MOTHER ESPECIALLY ESTEEMED BORN TO GOOD LUCK —SWEET POTA-TOES—SUPERSTITION THE LOG CABIN—ITS CHARMS SEPARATING CHIL-DREN—AUTHORS AUNTS THEIR NAMES FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF BEING A SLAVE OLD MASTER GRIEFS AND JOYS OF CHILDHOOD—COMPARA-TIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, nearEaston, the county town of that county, there is asmall district of country, thinly populated, and re-markable for nothing that I know of more than forthe worn-out, sandy, desert-like appearance of its soil,the general dilapidation of its farms and fences,the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants,and the prevalence of ague and fever. The name of this singularly unpromising and trulyfamine stricken

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