My bondage and my freedom . rs of theweek—Friday and Saturday—were spent mostly incollecting my things together, for my journey. Hav-ing worked four days that week, for my master, Ihanded him six dollars, on Saturday night. I seldomspent my Sundays at home ; and, for fear that some-thing might be discovered in my conduct, I kept upmy custom, and absented myself all day. On Mon-day, the third day of September, 1838, in accordancewith my resolution, I bade farewell to the city of Bal-timore, and to that slavery which had been my ab-horrence from childhood. How I got away—in what direction I trav
My bondage and my freedom . rs of theweek—Friday and Saturday—were spent mostly incollecting my things together, for my journey. Hav-ing worked four days that week, for my master, Ihanded him six dollars, on Saturday night. I seldomspent my Sundays at home ; and, for fear that some-thing might be discovered in my conduct, I kept upmy custom, and absented myself all day. On Mon-day, the third day of September, 1838, in accordancewith my resolution, I bade farewell to the city of Bal-timore, and to that slavery which had been my ab-horrence from childhood. How I got away—in what direction I traveled—whether by land or by water; whether with or with-out assistance—must, for reasons already mentioned,remain unexplained. /^ HHi. LIFE AS A FREEMAN CHAPTER XXII. LIBERTY ATTAINED. TRANSITION FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM A WANDERER IX NEW YORK FEELINGS OX REACHING THAT CITY AX OLD ACQUAINTANCE MET UNFA-VORABLE IMPRESSIONS LOXELINESS AND INSECURITY APOLOGY FOR SLAVES WHO RETURN TO THEIR MASTERS COMPELLED «0 TELL MY CON-DITION SUCCORED BY A SAILOR DAVID RUGGLES THE UNDER-GROUND RAILROAD MARRIAGE BAGGAGE TAKEN FROM ME KINDNESS OF NA-THAN JOHNSON THE AUTHORS CHANGE OF NAME DARK NOTIONS OF NORTHERN CIVILIZATION THE CONTRAST COLORED *EOPLE IN NEW BED-FORD AN INCIDENT ILLUSTRATING THEIR SPIRIT THE AUTHOR AS A COM-MON LABORER DENIED WORK AT HIS TRADE THE FIRST WINTER AT THE NORTH REPULSE AT THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH SANCTIFIED HATE THE LIBERATOR AND ITS EDITOR. There is no necessity for any extended notice ofthe incidents of this part of my life. There is no-thing very striking or peculiar about my career as afreeman, when viewed apart from my life as a relation subsisting between my early experienceand that which I
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