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"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