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![]() Douglass, written in answer to my urgent solicitation for such a work:ĭEAR FRIEND: I have long entertained, as you very well know, a somewhat positive repugnance to writing or speaking anything for the public, which could, with any degree of plausibility, make me liable to the imputation of seeking personal notoriety, for its own sake. Perhaps the best Preface to this volume is furnished I am authorized to say that there is not a fictitious name nor place in the whole volume but that names and places are literally given, and that every transaction therein described actually transpired. The reader is, therefore, assured, with all due promptitude, that his attention is not invited to a work of ART, but to a work of FACTS-Facts, terrible and almost incredible, it may be-yet FACTS, nevertheless. The nature and character of slavery have been subjects of an almost endless variety of artistic representation and after the brilliant achievements in that field, and while those achievements are yet fresh in the memory of the million, he who would add another to the legion, must possess the charm of transcendent exellence, or apologize for something worse than rashness. IF the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple words-TOO LATE. HIS PRE-EMINENT SERVICES IN BEHALF OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIESĪFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUTRAGED PEOPLE,īY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PIRACY AND MURDER,ĭENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL EXISTENCE,īY HIS FAITHFUL AND FIRMLY ATTACHED FRIEND, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.ĪDMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND BENEVOLENCE,Ī Small but most Sincere Acknowledgment of New York: 25 Park Row.-Auburn: 107 Genesee-st.Įntered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred THING so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY Part II.-Life as a Freeman.īy a principle essential to christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a
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