CONTENTS MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM EDITOR’S PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. Childhood CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home CHAPTER III. Parentage CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream” CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery LIFE as a FREEMAN CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents RECEPTION SPEECH [10]. At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, Dr. Campbell’s Reply LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. [11]. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. Extract from an Oration, at THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various FOOTNOTES UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY By Booker T. Washington CONTENTS Preface Introduction UP FROM SLAVERY Chapter I A Slave Among Slaves Chapter II Boyhood Days Chapter III The Struggle For An Education Chapter IV Helping Others Chapter V The Reconstruction Period Chapter VI Black Race And Red Race Chapter VII Early Days At Tuskegee Chapter VIII Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House Chapter IX Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights Chapter X A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw Chapter XI Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them Chapter XII Raising Money Chapter XIII Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech Chapter XIV The Atlanta Exposition Address Chapter XV The Secret Of Success In Public Speaking Chapter XVI Europe Chapter XVII Last Words THE NEGRO PROBLEM By Booker T. Washington and Others CONTENTS I Industrial Education for the Negro Booker T. Washington 7 II The Talented Tenth W.E. Burghardt DuBois 31 III The Disfranchisement of the Negro Charles W. Chesnutt 77 IV The Negro and the Law Wilford H. Smith 125 V The Characteristics of the Negro People H.T. Kealing 161 VI Representative American Negroes Paul Laurence Dunbar 187 VII The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day T. Thomas Fortune 211