The first impression I’ve had from this book are confusion, disgust, and fear of the worth of a human soul. Basically, I’m shook at the nature of cattle slavery in America and its dehumanizing effects on both the slave and the slaveholder.
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Chapter 1
- A treatise on a birthday
- Mother Farthest
- Daddy Issues
- Introducing my Master
- Aunt Hester
Chapter 2
- The Auld Family
- Allowances of food and clothing
- A bed for none
- Mr. Severe
- Mr. Hopkins
- The Great House Plantation
- The Blues
Chapter 3
- The Garden
- The Treatment of Barney & Barney
- “Are you treated well?”
- Superior Masters
Chapter 4
- Mr. Gore
- Demby’s Death
- Black Lives DOn’t Matter
Chapter 5
- The Good slave Life
- Hunger and cold
- Clothing allowance for Baltimore
- Baltimore
Chapter 6
- Sophia Auld
- If you give a nigger an inch
- A City Slave
Appendix: A Note on Christianity
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Chapter 7
- Learning how to read
- Injuries to the Slave and Slaveholder
- Unpardonable
- Ignorance is bliss
- Learning how to write
Chapter 8
- The Property of Captain Anthony
- Grandma Bailey
- St. Michael’s
Chapter 9
- St. Michael’s (cont’d)
- A Natural Slavemaster
- The Christian Slaveholder
- Mr. Convey
Chapter 10
- Mr. Convey
- The broken slave body
- Making a man out of a slave
- Brunken Freedom
- The Sins of a Slave
- Mr. Freeland
- A botched runaway attempt
- Calking
- Poor Whites vs Slaves
Chapter 11
- I Can’t Kiss and Tell
- The Underground Railroad
- “An Honorable Robber”
- Don’t think of the Future
- Hired Time
- The Escape
- Fugitive
- Mr. Ruggles
- New Bedford
- Frederick Douglas
- Liberator
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Frederick Douglass was certainly a writer; this Narrative flows well and pains the reader in ways I thought a 300 page book couldn’t. It pains to read about the suffering of Douglass and others in this book and reminds me that without their suffering, I wouldn’t be in the US now.
makes use of chiasma
a human is a social being
you are born with a capacity for social
Nico Addai 
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