Identifier: lifetimesoffrede1882doug (find matches)
Title: Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Antislavery movements Slavery
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Park
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ymounted their horses and rode to Andersonville, where mostof them resided. I was soon raised up and revived by NealHardy, a kind-hearted member of the Society of Friends, andcarried by him in his wagon about three miles in the countryto his home, where I was tenderly nursed and bandaged bygood Mrs. Hardy till I was again on my feet, but as the bonesbroken were not properly set my hand has never recoveredits natural strength and dexterity. We lingered long inIndiana, and the good effects of our labors there are felt at thisday. I have lately visited Pendleton, now one of the bestrepublican towns in the State, and looked again upon the spotwhere I was beaten down, and have again taken by the handsome of the witnesses of that scene, amongst whom was thekind, good ladyâMrs. Hardyâwho, so like the good Samaritanof old, bound up my wounds, and cared for me so kindly. Acomplete history of these hundred conventions would fill avolume far larger than the one in which this simple reference
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Fighting the Mob in Indiana. HIS MISSIONARY COMPANIONS. 265 is to find a place. It would be a grateful duty to speak of thenoble young men, who forsook ease and pleasure, as did White,Gay, and Monroe, and endured all manner of privations in thecause of the enslaved and down-trodden of my race. Gay,Monroe, and myself are the only ones who participated as agentsin the one hundred conventions who now survive. Mr. Monroewas for many years consul to Brazil, and has since been a faith-ful member of Congress from the Oberlin District, Ohio, and hasfilled other important positions in his State. Mr. Gay wasmanaging editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, andafterwards of the New York Tribune, and still later of theNew York Evening Post, CHAPTER VL IMPRESSIONS ABROAD. Danger to be avertedâA refuge sought abroadâVoyage on the steamshipCambriaâRefusal of first-class passageâAttractions of the forecastle-deckâHutchinson familyâInvited to make a speechâSoutherners feelinsultedâ

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