Foreword
Preface
INTRODUCTION: "A Psalm of Freedom"
Pt. 1 The Document
Editor's Note on the Text
Preface by William Lloyd Garrison, May 1,1845
Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq., April 22,1845 36
Narrative Of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
Notes on the Text

Pt. 2 Selected Reviews, Documents, and Speeches
Caleb Bingham, "Dialogue Between a Master and a Slave," in The Columbian Orator (1797)
Margaret Fuller, Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, New York Tribune, June 10, 1845
Ephraim Peabody, "Narratives of Fugitive Slaves," excerpt, Christian Examiner, July 1849
Nathaniel P. Rogers, "Southern Slavery and Northern Religion," two addresses delivered in Concord, New Hampshire, February 11, 1844, as reported in (Concord, N.H.) Herald Freedom, February 16,1844
Frederick Douglass, "My Slave Experience in Maryland," an address delivered in New York City, May 6, 1845, as recorded in National Antislavery Standard, May 22,1845
Frederick Douglass, Letter to Thomas Auld, September 3, 1848, published in The North Star, September 8,1848; and The Liberator, September 22, 1848
Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852

App. A Douglass chronology (1818-1895)
App. Questions for Considerarion 153
App. Selected Bibliography