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Preface
William Lloyd Garrison's preface, recounting Douglass's electrifying 1841 speech at the Nantucket anti-slavery convention and vouching for the truth of the narrative that follows, against the doubt that a man so eloquent could really have been enslaved.
Garrison's account of the Nantucket conventionVouching for the narrative’s authenticity“Gave the world assurance of a MAN”Preemptive answer to skeptics of Douglass’s account