The 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