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No. 11. The slaves were invariably given a Christmas and New Year's holiday, which they spent in various ways, such as hunting, ball playing, boxing, foot racing and drinking-the latter being encouraged the most by the slaveholders, this being the most effective way of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among slaves.
1939
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No. 12. It was in 1836 that Douglass conceived a plan of escape, also influencing several slaves around him. He told his co-conspirators what had been done, dared, suffered by men the inestimable boon of liberty.
1939
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No. 13. As the time of their intended escape drew nearer, their anxiety grew more and more intense. Their food was prepared and their clothing packed. Douglass had forged their passes. Early in the morning they went to the fields to work. At mid-day they were all called off the field, only to discover that they had been betrayed.
1939
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No. 14. Frederick Douglass was sent off to Baltimore to work in the shipyards of Gardiner. Here the workers were Negro slaves and a poor class of whites. The slaveholders caused much friction between the two groups. It was in one of the many brawls here that Douglass almost lost an eye. Douglass had become a master of his trade, that of ship caulker. Seeing no reason why at the end of each week he should give his complete earnings to a man he owed nothing, again he planned to escape.
1939
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No. 15. Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery was a hazardous and exciting twenty-four fours. Douglass disguised himself as a sailor-best, he thought, because he knew the language of a sailor and he knew a ship from stem to stern. On he traveled through Maryland, Wilmington, Philadelphia, and to his destination, New York. Frederick Douglass was free.
1939
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No. 16. Douglass's first three years in the north were spent as a laborer, on the wharf, sawing wood, shoveling coal, digging cellars and removing rubbish.
1939
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No. 17. Douglass listened to lectures by William Lloyd Garrison. He heard him denounce the slave system in words that were mighty in truth and mighty in earnestness.
1939
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No. 18. It was in the year 1841 that Frederick Douglass joined the forces of William Lloyd Garrison and the abolistionists. He helped secure subscribers to "The Anti-Slavery Standard" and "The Liberator." He lectured through the Eastern counties of Massachussetts, narrating his life as a slave, telling of the cruelty, the inhuman and clannish system of the slave system.
1939
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No. 19. The Garrisonians in the year 1843 planned a series of conventions in order to spread and create greater antislavery sentiment in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. In one of these conventions, Douglass and two of his fellow workers were mobbed at Pendleton, Indiana.
1939
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