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 10 CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XXL

ESCAPE FROM SLAVERT. Closing incidents in my " life as a Slave " — Discontent — Suspicions — Master's generosity — Difficulties in the way of escape— Plan to obtain money — Allowed to hire my time — A gleam of hope — Attend camp- meeting — Anger of Master Hugh — The result — Plans of escape — Day for departure fixed — Harassing doubts and fears — Painful thoughts of separation from friends 212

SEOOKD PAET.

CHAPTER I.

ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY.

Reasons for not having revealed the manner of escape — Nothing of romance in the method — Danger — Free Papers — Unjust tax — Protec- tion papers — "Free trade and sailors' rights" — American eagle — Rail- road train — Unobserving conductor — Capt. McGowan — Honest Ger- man—Fears—Safe arrival in Philadelphia — Ditto in New York. 220

CHAPTER II.

LIFE AS A FREEMAN.

Loneliness and insecurity — "Allender's Jake" — Succored by a sailor- David Ruggles — Marriage — Steamer J. W. Richmond — Stage to New Bedford — Arrival there — Driver's detention of baggage — Nathan Johnson — Change of Name — Why called "Douglass" — Obtaining Work— The Liberator and its Editor 228

CHAPTER IH. INTRODUCED TO THE ABOLITIONISTS.

Anti-Slavery Convention at Nantucket — First Speech — Much Sensation — Extraordinary Speech of Mr. Garrison — Anti-Slavery Agency — Youthful Enthusiasm — Fugitive Slaveship Doubted — Experience in Slavery Written — Danger of Recapture JI44

CHAPTER IV.

RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD FRIENDS.

Work in Rhode Island— Dorr War — Recollections of old friends— Fwthff kUn in BUdt Island and dsewtert in Ntw Sngbad 950