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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History

Name: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History
Author: Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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00 - Introduction (20:27)
01 - Author's Birth (5:51)
02 - Removal from Grandmother's (8:50)
03 - Troubles of Childhood (6:49)
04 - A General Survey of the Slave Plantation (19:01)
05 - A Slaveholder's Character (11:06)
06 - A Child's Reasoning (17:06)
07 - Luxuries at the Great House (16:09)
08 - Characteristics of Overseers (10:16)
09 - Change of Location (14:08)
10 - Learning to Read (9:59)
11 - Growing in Knowledge (15:35)
12 - Religious Nature Awakened (15:29)
13 - The Vicissitudes of Slave Life (18:01)
14 - Experience in St. Michaels (26:59)
15 - Covey, the Negro Breaker (29:23)
16 - Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vice (16:12)
17 - The Last Flogging (25:54)
18 - New Relations and Duties (22:06)
19 - The Runaway Plot (51:27)
20 - Apprenticeship Life (26:58)
21 - Escape from Slavery, Part 1 (16:33)
22 - Escape from Slavery, Part 2 (11:29)
23 - Life as a Freeman (31:51)
24 - Introduced to the Abolitionists (11:09)
25 - Recollections of Old Friends (14:32)
26 - One Hundred Conventions (14:11)
27 - Impressions Abroad (1:06:18)
28 - Triumphs and Trials (28:07)
29 - John Brown and Mrs. Stowe (48:42)
30 - Increasing Demands of the Slave Power (52:27)
31 - The Beginning of the End (43:39)
32 - Secession and War (41:40)
33 - Hope for the Nation (53:08)
34 - Vast Changes (58:51)
35 - Living and Learning (19:37)
36 - Weighed in the Balance (1:15:45)
37 - Time Makes All Things Even (29:44)
38 - Incidents and Events (30:19)
39 - Honor to Whom Honor (21:36)
40 - Retrospection (13:17)
41 - Appendix (1:06:17)
42 - Later Life (13:00)
43 - A Grand Occasion (12:17)
44 - Doubts as to Garfield's Course (7:37)
45 - Recorder of Deeds (10:43)
46 - President Cleveland's Administration (15:05)
47 - The Supreme Court Decision (35:04)
48 - Defeat of James G. Blaine (6:14)
49 - European Tour (12:02)
50 - Continuation of European Tour (1:09:51)
51 - The Campaign of 1888 (10:34)
52 - The Administration of President Harrison (6:32)
53 - Minister to Haiti (21:18)
54 - Continued Negotiations for the Mole St. Nicolas (26:51)

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