The life and times of Frederick Douglass
His third biography, in this thoroughly revised 1892 edition, is his most reflective, offering the perspective of a man at the end of a long life. He shares stories of his childhood, to his own battle for personal freedom.
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New York :
Cosimo Classics,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction [to the 1892 Edition
- First Part.
- Author's birth
- Removal from Grandmother's
- Troubles of childhood
- A general survey of the Slave Plantation
- A slaveholder's character
- A child's reasoning
- Luxuries at the Great House
- Characteristics of overseers
- Change of location
- Learning to read
- Growing in knowledge
- Religious nature awakened
- The vicissitudes of slave life
- Experience in St. Michaels
- Covey, the Negro Breaker
- Another pressure of the tyrant's vise
- The last flogging
- New relations and duties
- The runaway plot
- Apprenticeship life
- Escape from slavery
- Second Part.
- Escape from slavery
- Life as a freeman
- Introduction to the Abolitionists
- Recollections of old friends
- One hundred conventions
- Impressions abroad
- Triumphs and trials
- John Brown and Mrs. Stowe
- Increasing demand for slave power
- The beginning of the end
- Secession and war
- Hope for the Nation
- Vast changes
- Living and learning
- Weighed in the balance
- "Time makes all things even"
- Incidents and events
- "Honor to whom honor"
- Retrospection
- Appendix
- Third Part.
- Later life
- A grand occasion
- Doubts as the Garfield's course
- Recorder of deeds
- President Cleveland's administration
- The Supreme Court decision
- Defeat of James G. Blaine
- European tour
- Continuation of European tour
- The campaign of 1888
- Administration of President Harrison
- Minister to Haiti
- Continued negotiations for the Mò‚le St. Nicholas.
