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Life as a Slave

Chapter 14

Religious Nature Awakened

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Douglass's religious conversion under the influence of the free Black drayman ‘Father’ Lawson, his first encounter with the word ‘abolitionist,’ and his self-taught progress toward writing by copying ship timber marks and Thomas Auld's copybooks.

Father Lawson as Douglass's spiritual mentorDiscovering the meaning of ‘abolition’ via a Baltimore newspaperNat Turner's rebellion and its aftermathTeaching himself to write from shipyard timber markings

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