"I sobbed myself to sleep" -- "Many children but no family" -- Off to Baltimore -- "The turning point" -- Escape -- New Bedford -- "I had no master" -- The lecture circuit : "I can tell you what I have seen" -- "From house to house, and from heart to heart -- "What to an American slave is your 4th of July?" -- The foreshadow of a conflict on a larger scale -- "To arms!" -- Meeting the great man -- Marshal Douglass "too smart to be a slave" -- The African-American : "like a man in a morass" -- "From first to last : a noble life" -- Important dates in the life of Frederick Douglass

When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery

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