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1  My determination to run away was again revived.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  We all denied that we ever intended to run away.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  So we were not yet convicted of the intention to run away.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  The slave was represented as having run away from his master three times.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  My object in working steadily was to remove any suspicion he might entertain of my intent to run away; and in this I succeeded admirably.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  I was afraid that these seemingly good men might use me so; but I nevertheless remembered their advice, and from that time I resolved to run away.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  One of my greatest faults was that of letting his horse run away, and go down to his father-inlaw's farm, which was about five miles from St. Michael's.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  I then had to regret that I did not at least make the attempt to carry out my resolution to run away; for the chances of success are tenfold greater from the city than from the country.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  If a slave was convicted of any high misdemeanor, became unmanageable, or evinced a determination to run away, he was brought immediately here, severely whipped, put on board the sloop, carried to Baltimore, and sold to Austin Woolfolk, or some other slave-trader, as a warning to the slaves remaining.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  I supposed that they had consulted together, and had decided that, as I was the whole cause of the intention of the others to run away, it was hard to make the innocent suffer with the guilty; and that they had, therefore, concluded to take the others home, and sell me, as a warning to the others that remained.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X