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1 Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER II
2 The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XI
3 Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X
4 I found many, who had not been seven years out of their chains, living in finer houses, and evidently enjoying more of the comforts of life, than the average of slaveholders in Maryland.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XI
5 He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment's warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER III
6 Secondly, such a statement would most undoubtedly induce greater vigilance on the part of slaveholders than has existed heretofore among them; which would, of course, be the means of guarding a door whereby some dear brother bondman might escape his galling chains.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XI
7 I would allow myself to suffer under the greatest imputations which evil-minded men might suggest, rather than exculpate myself, and thereby run the hazard of closing the slightest avenue by which a brother slave might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XI
8 It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery.
The Narrative of the LifeBy Frederick Douglass ContextHighlight In CHAPTER V