Entertaining that feeling very sincerely, and permitting its control, perhaps, quite unreasonably, I have often 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 plausibilty, make me liable to the imputation of seeking personal notoriety, for its own sake. Perhaps the best Preface to this volume is furnished in the following letter of Mr. 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 excellence, 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. WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. XVI-ANOTHER PRESSURE OF THE TYRANTS VICE.172 XI-"A CHANGE CAME O'ER THE SPIRIT OF MY DREAM".118 VI-TREATMENT OF SLAVES ON LLOYDS PLANTATION. V-GRADUAL INITIATION INTO THE MYSTERIES OF SLAVERY. IV-A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SLAVE PLANTATION.
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,ĮDITORS PREFACE.1 Necessarily excludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING_.Įntered according to Act of Congress in 1855 by Frederickĭouglass in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of theĪDMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND BENEVOLENCE,Ī Small but most Sincere Acknowledgement of _By a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternallyĭifferenced from a THING so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass 1855
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