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Read Ebook: Life and times of Frederick Douglass by Douglass Frederick Ruffin George L George Lewis Author Of Introduction Etc
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Anti-Slavery Conventions held in parts of New England, and in some of the Middle and Western States--Mobs--Incidents, etc. 257
IMPRESSIONS ABROAD.
Danger to be averted--A refuge sought abroad--Voyage on the steamship Cambria--Refusal of first-class passage--Attractions of the forecastle-deck--Hutchinson family--Invited to make a speech--Southerners feel insulted--Captain threatens to put them in irons--Experiences abroad--Attentions received-- Impressions of different members of Parliament, and of other public men--Contrast with life in America--Kindness of friends--Their purchase of my person, and the gift of the same to myself--My return 266
TRIUMPHS AND TRIALS.
New Experiences--Painful Disagreement of Opinion with old Friends--Final Decision to Publish my Paper in Rochester--Its Fortunes and its Friends--Change in my own Views Regarding the Constitution of the United States--Fidelity to Conviction--Loss of Old Friends--Support of New Ones--Loss of House, etc., by Fire--Triumphs and Trials--Under-ground Railroad--Incidents 294
JOHN BROWN AND MRS. STOWE.
My First Meeting with Capt John Brown--The Free Soil Movement-- Colored Convention--Uncle Tom's Cabin--Industrial School for Colored People--Letter to Mrs. H. B. Stowe 309
INCREASING DEMANDS OF THE SLAVE POWER.
Increased demands of slavery--War in Kansas--John Brown's raid-- His capture and execution--My escape to England from United States marshals 329
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