Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" is the third and last autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In this finial memoir Douglas gives more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery than he did in his two previous autobiographies.

Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

Contents:

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

Escape From Slavery

Life as a Freeman

Introduced to the Abolitionists

Recollections of Old Friends

One Hundred Conventions

Impressions Abroad

Triumphs and Trials

John Brown and Mrs. Stowe

Increasing Demands of the 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

Later Life

A Grand Occasion

Doubts as to 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 Haïti

Continued Negotiations for the Môle St. Nicolas