Book/Printed Material Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave

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- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 2 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave Frederick Douglass
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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
- Date: 1849
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....
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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....
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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?...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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....
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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,...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
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...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 26 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 8 sight, that I hid myself in a closet, and dared not venture out till long after the bloody transaction was over. I expected it would be my turn next. It was...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 27 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 9 so that, with the products of this and the other farms belonging to him, he was able to keep in almost constant employment a large sloop, in carrying them to market...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 28 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 10 their monthly allowance of food, and their yearly clothing. The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 29 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 11 with their miserable blankets; and here they sleep till they are summoned to the field by the driver's horn. At the sound of this, all must rise, and be off to...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 30 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 12 curses and horrid oaths. His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence. Mr. Severe's place was filled by a Mr. Hopkins. He was a very...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 31 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 13 and most trusty fellow, who had this honor conferred upon him the most frequently. The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, as the office-seekers in the...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 32 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 14 horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do. I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 33 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 15 among slaves, as evidence of their Contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 34 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 16 swarms of boys, as well as the older slaves, belonging to the colonels few of whom had the virtue or the vice to resist it. Scarcely a day passed, during the...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 35 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 17 horses—a supposition which he frequently indulged, and one which, of course, made the office of old and young Barney a very trying one. They never knew when they were safe from...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 36 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 18 Lowndes. All of these lived at the Great House Farm, and enjoyed the luxury of whipping the servants when they pleased, from old Barney down to William Wilkes, the coach-driver. I...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 37 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 19 moment's warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death. This is the penalty of telling the truth, of telling...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 38 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 20 quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others. At the very same time, they mutually...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 39 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 21 what is called a first-rate overseer. Mr. Gore had served Colonel Lloyd, in the capacity of overseer, upon one of the out-farms, and had shown himself worthy of the high station...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849
Image 40 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave 22 cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience. He was, of...
- Contributor: Garrison, William Lloyd - Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1849

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Title: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Contributor Names: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Created / Published: Boston : Anti-Slavery Office, 1849.
Subject Headings: - Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895; - Abolitionists--United States--Biography; - African American abolitionists--Biography
Notes: - "Preface" by W.L. Garrison: p. [iii]-xii.; - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Medium: xvi, 125 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location: E449 .D749 1849
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbcb.25385
Library of Congress Control Number: 82225385
Online Format: online text; image; pdf
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Douglass, Frederick, and William Lloyd Garrison. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1849. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/82225385/.

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