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NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE
NARRATIVE OF THE
LIFE
By FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE
PREFACE
In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti- slavery convention
in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to e 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 south- ern prison-house of bondage, and feeling
his curiosity excited to ascertain the principles and measures of the
abolitionists,--of whom he had heard a somewhat vague description while
he was a slave,--he was in- duced to give his attendance, on the occasion
al- luded to, though at that time a resident in New Bedford. Fortunate,
most fortunate occurrence!--fortunate for the millions of his manacled
brethren, yet pant- ing for deliverance from their awful thraldom!--for-
tunate for the cause of negro emancipation, and of universal liberty!--
fortunate for the land of his birth, which he has already done so much to
save and bless! --fortunate for a large circle of friends and acquaint- ances,
whose sympathy and affection he has strongly secured by the many
sufferings he has endured, by his virtuous traits of character, by his ever-
abiding remembrance of those who are in bonds, as being bound with
them!--fortunate for the multitudes, in various parts of our republic, whose
minds he has enlightened on the subject of slavery, and who have been
melted to tears by his pathos, or roused to virtuous indignation by his
stirring eloquence against the enslavers of men!--fortunate for himself, as
it at once brought him into the field of public use- fulness, "gave the world
assurance of a MAN," quick- ened the slumbering energies of his soul, and
con- secrated 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 conven- tion--the extraordinary emotion it excited in my