Sections 1 NEW YEAR’S THOUGHTS AND MEDITATIONS—AGAIN BOUGHT BY FREELAND—NO AMBITION TO BE A… 2 But the kindness of the slavemaster only gilds the chain of slavery, and detracts nothing… 3 Toward Henry and John Harris, I felt a friendship as strong as one man can feel for another;… 4 But here came a new trouble. 5 I am the more inclined to think that he suspected us, because, prudent as we were, as I now… 6 These meetings must have resembled, on a small scale, the meetings of revolutionary… 7 The distance, however, is not the chief trouble. 8 The reader can have little idea of the phantoms of trouble which flit, in such… 9 In the progress of our preparations, Sandy, the root man, became troubled. 10 These and other objections were set aside, by the stronger ones which could be urged against… 11 I cannot describe the tempest and tumult of my brain, that morning. 12 Early that morning we went, as usual, to the field, but with hearts that beat quickly and… 13 In thirty minutes after that vivid presentiment came the apprehended crash. 14 There was now no one in the kitchen but myself and John Harris. 15 “Shoot! 16 Could the kind reader have been quietly riding along the main road to or from Easton, that… 17 On reaching St. 18 Once shut up, a new set of tormentors came upon us. 19 Soon after the holidays were over, contrary to all our expectations, Messrs. 20 After remaining in this life of misery and despair about a week, which, by the way, seemed a…
Start Learning Douglass organizes five fellow slaves in a plan to canoe up the Chesapeake and escape north — a plot betrayed at the last moment, ending in Douglass's arrest, imprisonment at Easton, and separation from his co-conspirators.
Planning the canoe escape with Henry and John Harris, Sandy Jenkins, Charles Roberts, and Henry Bailey Sandy's ominous dream of birds of prey Henry Harris's armed resistance to arrest Easton jail and the slave-traders who circled it
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