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-- Protection papers--“Free trade and sailors’ rights”--American eagle--Railroad train--Unobserving conductor--Capt. McGowan-- Honest German--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 III.
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 244
CHAPTER IV.
RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD FRIENDS.
Work in Rhode Island--Dorr War--Recollections of old friends-- Further labors in Rhode Island and elsewhere in New England 250
CHAPTER V.
ONE HUNDRED CONVENTIONS.
Anti-Slavery Conventions held in parts of New England, and in some of the Middle and Western States--Mobs--Incidents, etc. 257
CHAPTER VI.
IMPRESSIONS ABROAD.
Danger to be averted--A refuge sought abroad--Voyage on the steamship Cambria--Refusal of first-class passage--Attractions of the forecastle-deck--Hutchinson family--Invited to make a speech--Southerners feel insulted--Captain threatens to put them in irons--Experiences abroad--Attentions received-- Impressions of different members of Parliament, and of other public men--Contrast with life in America--Kindness of friends--Their purchase of my person, and the gift of the same to myself--My return 266