Research Catalog

Title

My bondage and my freedom / by Frederick Douglass ; with an introduction by James M'Cune Smith.

Author

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Publication

• New York ; and Auburn : Miller, Orton & Mulligan. New York: 25 Park Row.-- Auburn: 107 Genesee-st., 1856.
• ©1855.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865.
• Smith, Gerrit, 1859-1912
• Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
• Miller, Orton & Mulligan, publisher, printer.

Description

xxxi, [2], 34-464 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Plantation life > Maryland > History > 19th century
• Fugitive slaves > Maryland > Biography
• Slaves > Maryland > Social conditions
• African American abolitionists > Biography
• Abolitionists > United States > Biography
• Antislavery movements > United States
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 > Portraits
• Black author

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• Frontispiece portrait includes facsimile autograph; signed at foot: Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a Daguerreotype.
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by Frederick Douglass, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, stereotypers and printers."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Dedicated to Gerrit Smith.
• Running title on rectos varies with contents.
• Running title on versos: p. 34-334, Life as a slave ; p. 336-406, Life as a freeman ; p. 408-464, Appendix.
• Later enlarged and published under title: Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Hartford, 1881.
• At least one issue includes impression statement at head of title: Seventeenth thousand.

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

• (From title page) Part I. Life as a slave. -- Part II. Life as a freeman.
• ch. 1. The author's childhood -- ch. 2. The author removed from his first home -- ch. 3. The author's parentage -- ch. 4. A general survey of the slave plantation -- ch. 5. Gradual initiation into the mysteries of slavery -- ch. 6. Treatment of slaves of Lloyd's plantation -- ch. 7. Life in the great house -- ch. 8. A chapter of horrors -- ch. 9. Personal treatment of the author -- ch. 10. Life in Baltimore -- ch. 11. "A change came o'er the spirit of my dream" -- ch. 12. Religious nature awakened -- ch. 13. The vicissitudes of slave life -- ch. 14. Experience in St. Michael's -- ch. 15. Covey, the Negro-breaker -- ch. 16. Another pressure of the tyrant's vice -- ch. 17. The last flogging -- ch. 18. New relations and duties -- ch. 19. The runaway plot -- ch. 20. Apprenticeship life -- ch. 21. My escape from slavery -- ch. 22. Liberty attained -- ch. 23. Introduced to the abolitionists -- ch. 24. Twenty-one months in great britain -- ch. 25. various incidents -- Appendix: extracts from speeches, etc.

Call Number

Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. My bondage and my freedom. 1856)

OCLC

• 9068650
• 51677384

Author

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, author.

Title

My bondage and my freedom / by Frederick Douglass ; with an introduction by James M'Cune Smith.

Publisher

New York ; and Auburn : Miller, Orton & Mulligan. New York: 25 Park Row.-- Auburn: 107 Genesee-st., 1856.

Copyright Date

©1855.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. My bondage and my freedom. 1856) (accession no. B572183) with the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. My bondage and my freedom. 1856) has impression statement on title page, at head of title: "Seventeenth thousand."

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865.

Smith, Gerrit, 1859-1912, dedicatee.

Miller, Orton & Mulligan, publisher, printer.

Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare B-Douglass (Douglass, F. My bondage and my freedom. 1856)