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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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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 the principles and measures of the aboli…
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- AuthorFrederick Douglass
- SourceProject Gutenberg #23
- Length41,133 words · 2h 45m of reading
- Chapters15
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-03
Contents
15 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01BOSTON
- 02PREFACE
- 03LETTER FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ.
- 04CHAPTER I
- 05CHAPTER II
- 06CHAPTER III
- 07CHAPTER IV
- 08CHAPTER V
- 09CHAPTER VI
- 10CHAPTER VII
- 11CHAPTER VIII
- 12CHAPTER IX
- 13CHAPTER X
- 14CHAPTER XI
- 15APPENDIX
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