Book/Printed Material Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
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Image 1 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849-01-01
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Image 2 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave Frederick Douglass- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 3 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave Douglas, Frederick NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. BOSTON: PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE, No. 25 CORNHILL. 1849- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 4 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 2495458 E449 .D749 1849 Rare Bk Coll b103 9/15/83 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, By Frederick Douglass, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 6 OCT 12 1982 COPY. ORDER DIVISION 82-225385- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 5 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave PREFACE. b103 9/15/83 In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with Frederick Douglass, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the southern prison-house of bondage, and feeling his curiosity excited to ascertain…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 6 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave iv field of public usefulness, “gave the world assurance of a MAN,” quickened the slumbering energies of his soul, and consecrated him to the great work of breaking the rod of the oppressor, and letting the oppressed go free! I shall never forget his first speech at the convention—the extraordinary emotion it excited in my own mind—the powerful impression it created upon a crowded…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 7 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave v he proceeded to narrate some of the facts in his own history as a slave, and in the course of his speech gave utterance to many noble thoughts and thrilling reflections. As soon as he had taken his seat, filled with hope and admiration, I rose, and declared that Patrick Henry, of revolutionary fame, never made a speech more eloquent in the cause…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 8 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave vi Agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Mr. John A. Collins, whose judgment in this instance entirely coincided with my own. At first, he could give no encouragement; with unfeigned diffidence, he expressed his conviction that he was not adequate to the performance of so great a task; the path marked out was wholly an untrodden one; he was sincerely apprehensive that he should…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 9 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave vii race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence. It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery,…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 10 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave viii Admitting this to have been an extraordinary case of mental deterioration, it proves at least that the white slave can sink as low in the scale of humanity as the black one. Mr. Douglass has very properly chosen to write his own Narrative, in his own style, and according to the best of his ability, rather than to employ some one else. It…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 11 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave ix inflicted upon his person! what still more shocking outrages were perpetrated upon his mind! with all his noble powers and sublime aspirations, how like a brute was he treated, even by those professing to have the same mind in them that was in Christ Jesus! to what dreadful liabilities was he continually subjected! how destitute of friendly counsel and aid, even in his…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 12 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave x with glory and honor to a level with four-footed beasts, and exalts the dealer in human flesh above all that is called God! Why should its existence be prolonged one hour? Is it not evil, only evil, and that continually? What does its presence imply but the absence of all fear of God, all regard for man, on the part of the people…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 13 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave xi reflection; but, generally, it indicates a hatred of the light, a desire to shield slavery from the assaults of its foes, a contempt of the colored race, whether bond or free. Such will try to discredit the shocking tales of slaveholding cruelty which are recorded in this truthful Narrative; but they will labor in vain. Mr. Douglass has frankly disclosed the place of…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 14 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave xii overseer can be convicted of any outrage perpetrated on the person of a slave, however diabolical it may be, on the testimony of colored witnesses, whether bond or free. By the slave code, they are adjudged to be as incompetent to testify against a white man, as though they were indeed a part of the brute creation. Hence, there is no legal protection…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 15 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave LETTER FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ. Boston, April 22, 1845. My Dear Friend: You remember the old fable of “The Man and the lion,” where the lion complained that he should not be so misrepresented “when the lions wrote history.” I am glad the time has come when the “lions write history.” We have been left long enough to gather the character of slavery from…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 16 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave xiv I was glad to learn, in your story, how early the most neglected of God's children waken to a sense of their rights, and of the injustice done them. Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the “white sails” of the Chesapeake were bound, you began, I see, to gauge the wretchedness…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 17 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave xv unfairly picked out some rare specimens of cruelty. We know that the bitter drops, which even you have drained from the cup, are no incidental aggravations, no individual ills, but such as must mingle always and necessarily in the lot of every slave. They are the essential ingredients, not the occasional results, of the system. After all, I shall read your book with…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 18 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave xvi streets, and bear witness in safety against the cruel. ties of which he has been the victim. Yet it is sad to think, that these very throbbing hearts which welcome your story, and form your best safeguard in telling it, are all beating contrary to the “statute in such case made and provided.” Go on, my dear friend, till you, and those who,…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 19 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 1 NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. CHAPTER I. I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 20 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 2 a restless spirit. The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old. My mother was named Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark. My mother was of a…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 21 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 3 miles from my home. She made her journeys to see me in the night, travelling the whole distance on foot, after the performance of her day's work. She was a field hand, and a whipping is the penalty of not being in the field at sunrise, unless a slave has special permission from his or her master to the contrary—a permission which they…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 22 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 4 mothers: and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable; for by this cunning arrangement, the slaveholder, in cases not a few, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father. I know of such cases; and it is worthy of remark that such slaves…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 23 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 5 predicted the downfall of slavery by the inevitable laws of population. Whether this prophecy is ever fulfilled or not, it is nevertheless plain that a very different-looking class of people are springing up at the south, and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their increase will do no other good, it will do…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 24 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 6 man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding. He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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Image 25 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 7 belonging to Colonel Lloyd. The young man's name was Ned Roberts, generally called Lloyd's Ned. Why master was so careful of her, may be safely left to conjecture. She was a woman of noble form, and of graceful proportions, having very few equals, and fewer superiors, in personal appearance, among the colored or white women of our neighborhood. Aunt Hester had not only…- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
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- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
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- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
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- Boston : Anti-Slavery Office, 1849.
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- - Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895
- - Abolitionists--United States--Biography
- - African American abolitionists--Biography
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- - "Preface" by W.L. Garrison: p. [iii]-xii.
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- xvi, 125 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
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