The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass

This Narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power

highly creditable to his head and heart

. 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.

whether they would ever allow him to be carried back into slavery,—law or no law

think I never hated slavery so intensely as at that moment;

my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS,

escaped a den of hungry lions.

told him I hired my time and while I paid him the price which he asked for it, I did not know that I was bound to ask him when and where I should go.

always felt worse for having received any thing; for I feared that the giving me a few cents would ease his conscience, and make him feel himself to be a pretty honorable sort of robber.

Poor man! such was his disposition, and success at deceiving