1 I had as well be killed running as die standing.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 2 Mr. Thomas Lanman, of St. Michael's, killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER IV 3 My master sent me away, because there existed against me a very great prejudice in the community, and he feared I might be killed.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 4 It was a common saying, even among little white boys, that it was worth a half-cent to kill a "nigger," and a half-cent to bury one.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER IV 5 I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed in killing me.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 6 With this, two of the constables pulled out their shining pistols, and swore, by their Creator, that they would make him cross his hands or kill him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 7 If I had been killed in the presence of a thousand colored people, their testimony combined would have been insufficient to have arrested one of the murderers.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 8 I told him, to let me get a new home; that as sure as I lived with Mr. Covey again, I should live with but to die with him; that Covey would surely kill me; he was in a fair way for it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 9 If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 10 I often found myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself, or done something for which I should have been killed.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 11 They began to put on airs, and talk about the "niggers" taking the country, saying we all ought to be killed; and, being encouraged by the journeymen, they commenced making my condition as hard as they could, by hectoring me around, and sometimes striking me.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X