Identifier: mybondagemyfreed00doug (find matches)
Title: My bondage and my freedom ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States Slavery -- Maryland
Publisher: New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-, truthfulness, andearnest struggle for the riglit. It proves the justice and practica-bility of Immediate Emancipation. It shows that any map in ourland, no matter in what battle his liberty may have been clovend^wn, * * * * no matter Avliat complexion an Indian or artAfrican sun may have burned upon him, not only may standforth redeemed and disenthralled, l»ut may also stand up a candi-date for the highest suffrage of a great people—the tribute of theirhonest, hearty admiration. Reader, Vale! New York. James MCune Smith. <i«tfi
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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 EIRTH GENEALOGICAL TREES MODE OF COUNTING TIME NAMES OF GRANDPARENTS THEIR POSITION GRAND-MOTHER ESPECIALLY ESTEEMED bORN TO GOOD LUCk SWEET POTA-TOES SLTERSTITION 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 C03IPARA- TIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, nearEaston, tlie 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 district ismybondagemyfreed00doug

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