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MY BONDAGE AND
MY FREEDOM. Part 1.-Life as a Slave. Part II.-Life as a freeman. By FREDERICK DOUGLASS. WITH
AN INTRODUCTION. Br DR. JAMES M'CUNE SMITH.
By a principle essential to christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY. COLERIDGE
NEW YORK AND AUBURN: MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN. New York: 25 Park Row-Auburn:107 Genesee-st.
1855.
Title page. 1855 edition. Yale Collection of American Literature. Beinecke Rare Bonk a nd Manuscript Library.
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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
AUBURN: MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN STEREOTYPES AND PRINTERS
"Copyright" page, 1855 edition. Yale Collection of American Literature. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Lihrary.
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TO
HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH,
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF
ESTEEM FOR HIS CHARACTER,
ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND BENEVOLENCE,
AFFECTION FOR HIS PERSON, AND
GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP,
AND AS
A SMALL BUT MOST SINCERE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
HIS PRE-EMINENT SERVICES IN BEHALF OF THE RIGHT AND LIBERTIES
OF AN
AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUTRAGED PEOPLE,
BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PIRACY ANBD MURDER,
AND BY
DENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY HIS FAITHFUL AND FIRMLY ATTACHED FRIEND
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ROCHESTER, N.Y.
Dedication page. 1855 edition. Yale Collection of American Literature. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM. Part 1. - Life as a Slave.Part IL - Life as a Freeman.
Bv FREDERICK DOUGLASS. WITH
AN INTRODUCTION.
By DR. JAMES M'CUNE SMITH.
By a principle essential to christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING, so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING. COLERIDGE
NEW YORK AND AUBURN:
MILLER. ORTON & MULLIGAN. New York: 25 Park Row. -- Auburn: 107 Genesee-st.
1855