Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. [Illustration: Eng^d. by Augustus Robin. N.Y. _Fred^k. Douglass._] LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. HIS EARLY LIFE AS A SLAVE, HIS ESCAPE FROM BONDAGE, AND HIS COMPLETE HISTORY TO THE PRESENT TIME INCLUDING HIS CONNECTION WITH THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT; HIS LABORS IN GREAT BRITAIN AS WELL AS IN HIS OWN COUNTRY; HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE CONDUCT OF AN INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER; HIS CONNECTION WITH THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD; HIS RELATIONS WITH JOHN BROWN AND THE HARPER’S FERRY RAID; HIS RECRUITING THE 54th AND 55th MASS. COLORED REGIMENTS; HIS INTERVIEWS WITH PRESIDENTS LINCOLN AND JOHNSON; HIS APPOINTMENT BY GEN. GRANT TO ACCOMPANY THE SANTO DOMINGO COMMISSION; ALSO TO A SEAT IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; HIS APPOINTMENT AS UNITED STATES MARSHAL BY PRESIDENT R. B. HAYES; ALSO HIS APPOINTMENT BY PRESIDENT J. A. GARFIELD TO BE RECORDER OF DEEDS IN WASHINGTON; WITH MANY OTHER INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT EVENTS OF HIS MOST EVENTFUL LIFE; WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY MR. GEORGE L. RUFFIN, OF BOSTON. HARTFORD, CONN.: PARK PUBLISHING CO. GEO. M. REWELL & CO., CLEVELAND, OHIO; J. S. GOODMAN & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.; SUN PUBLISHING CO., ST. LOUIS, MO.; PHILLIPS & HUNT, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 1882 COPYRIGHTED BY PARK PUBLISHING CO., 1881. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. AUTHOR’S BIRTH. Author’s place of birth--Description of country--Its inhabitants--Genealogical trees--Method of counting time in slave districts--Date of author’s birth--Names of grandparents--Their cabin--Home with them--Slave practice of separating mothers from their children--Author’s recollections of his mother--Who was his father? 25 CHAPTER II. REMOVAL FROM GRANDMOTHER’S. Author’s early home--Its charms--Author’s ignorance of “old master”--His gradual perception of the truth concerning him-- His relations to Col. Edward Lloyd--Author’s removal to “old master’s” home--His journey thence--His separation from his grandmother--His grief 28 CHAPTER III. TROUBLES OF CHILDHOOD.