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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 69c721d..d7b82bc 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ *.htm text eol=lf *.html text eol=lf *.md text eol=lf - diff --git a/23-h/23-h.htm b/23-h/23-h.htm index 875b700..97b52ec 100644 --- a/23-h/23-h.htm +++ b/23-h/23-h.htm @@ -1,15 +1,13 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> +<meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Project Gutenberg</title> +<link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> +<style> -<style type="text/css"> - -body { margin-left: 20%; - margin-right: 20%; +body { margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; text-align: justify; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-weight: @@ -73,6 +71,43 @@ a:link {color:blue; text-decoration:none} a:visited {color:blue; text-decoration:none} a:hover {color:red} +.h1, .h2, .h3, .h4, .h5,.h6 { + text-align: center; + display: block; + margin-left: 0; + margin-right: 0; + font-weight: bold; +} +.h1 { + font-size: 2em; + margin-top: 0.67em; + margin-bottom: 0.67em; +} +.h2 { + font-size: 1.5em; + margin-top: 0.83em; + margin-bottom: 0.83em; +} +.h3 { + font-size: 1.17em; + margin-top: 1em; + margin-bottom: 1em; +} +.h4 { + font-size: 1em; + margin-top: 1.33em; + margin-bottom: 1.33em; +} +.h5 { + font-size: .83em; + margin-top: 1.67em; + margin-bottom: 1.67em; +} +.h6 { + font-size: .67em; + margin-top: 2.33em; + margin-bottom: 2.33em; +} </style> </head> @@ -80,33 +115,33 @@ a:hover {color:red} <body> <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 23 ***</div> -<h1>Narrative<br /> -of the<br /> -Life<br /> -of<br /> +<h1>Narrative<br> +of the<br> +Life<br> +of<br> FREDERICK DOUGLASS </h1> -<h2 class="no-break">AN<br /> -AMERICAN SLAVE.<br /> -WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.</h2> +<div class="h2">AN<br> +AMERICAN SLAVE.<br> +WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.</div> -<h4>BOSTON<br /> -<br /> - PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE,<br /> - NO. 25 CORNHILL<br /> - 1845<br /> -<br /> -</h4> +<div class="h4">BOSTON<br> +<br> + PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE,<br> + NO. 25 CORNHILL<br> + 1845<br> +<br> +</div> -<h5>ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS,<br /> - IN THE YEAR 1845<br /> - BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS,<br /> - IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT<br /> -OF MASSACHUSETTS.<br /> -</h5> +<div class="h5">ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS,<br> + IN THE YEAR 1845<br> + BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS,<br> + IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT<br> +OF MASSACHUSETTS.<br> +</div> -<hr /> +<hr> <p class="letter"> Note from the original file: This electronic book is being released at this @@ -114,11 +149,11 @@ time to honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. [Born January 15, 1929] [Officially celebrated January 20, 1992] </p> -<hr /> +<hr> <h2>Contents</h2> -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr> <td> <a href="#link2H_PREF">PREFACE</a></td> @@ -186,11 +221,11 @@ time to honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. [Born January 15, 1929] </table> -<hr /> +<hr> <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2H_PREF"></a>PREFACE</h2> +<h2><a id="link2H_PREF"></a>PREFACE</h2> <p> In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in @@ -493,7 +528,7 @@ WM. LLOYD GARRISON BOSTON, <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2H_4_0002"></a>LETTER FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ.</h2> +<h2><a id="link2H_4_0002"></a>LETTER FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ.</h2> <p class="right"> B<small>OSTON</small>, <i>April</i> 22, 1845. @@ -612,9 +647,9 @@ thought of old Massachusetts. </p> <p class="right"> -God speed the day! <br/> -<i>Till then, and ever,</i> <br/> -Yours truly, <br/> +God speed the day! <br> +<i>Till then, and ever,</i> <br> +Yours truly, <br> W<small>ENDELL</small> P<small>HILLIPS</small> </p> @@ -622,7 +657,7 @@ W<small>ENDELL</small> P<small>HILLIPS</small> <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2H_4_0003"></a>FREDERICK DOUGLASS.</h2> +<h2><a id="link2H_4_0003"></a>FREDERICK DOUGLASS.</h2> <p> Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey @@ -651,7 +686,7 @@ died in 1895. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0001"></a>CHAPTER I</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0001"></a>CHAPTER I</h2> <p> I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, @@ -835,7 +870,7 @@ scenes that often occurred on the plantation. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0002"></a>CHAPTER II</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0002"></a>CHAPTER II</h2> <p> My master’s family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, @@ -978,7 +1013,7 @@ leaving home. They would then sing most exultingly the following words:— </p> <p class="poem"> -“I am going away to the Great House Farm!<br/> +“I am going away to the Great House Farm!<br> O, yea! O, yea! O!” </p> @@ -1030,7 +1065,7 @@ the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0003"></a>CHAPTER III</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0003"></a>CHAPTER III</h2> <p> Colonel Lloyd kept a large and finely cultivated garden, which afforded almost @@ -1163,7 +1198,7 @@ was deemed a disgrace indeed! <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0004"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0004"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2> <p> Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. Why his career @@ -1315,7 +1350,7 @@ half-cent to bury one. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0005"></a>CHAPTER V</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0005"></a>CHAPTER V</h2> <p> As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, it was very @@ -1478,7 +1513,7 @@ praise. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0006"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0006"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> <p> My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the @@ -1587,7 +1622,7 @@ oftener called “<i>pecked</i>” than by her name. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0007"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0007"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2> <p> I lived in Master Hugh’s family about seven years. During this time, I @@ -1791,7 +1826,7 @@ write. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0008"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0008"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2> <p> In a very short time after I went to live at Baltimore, my old master’s @@ -1899,17 +1934,17 @@ are, in the language of the slave’s poet, Whittier,— </p> <p class="poem"> -“Gone, gone, sold and gone<br/> -To the rice swamp dank and lone,<br/> -Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings,<br/> -Where the noisome insect stings,<br/> -Where the fever-demon strews<br/> -Poison with the falling dews,<br/> -Where the sickly sunbeams glare<br/> -Through the hot and misty air:—<br/> -Gone, gone, sold and gone<br/> -To the rice swamp dank and lone,<br/> -From Virginia hills and waters—<br/> +“Gone, gone, sold and gone<br> +To the rice swamp dank and lone,<br> +Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings,<br> +Where the noisome insect stings,<br> +Where the fever-demon strews<br> +Poison with the falling dews,<br> +Where the sickly sunbeams glare<br> +Through the hot and misty air:—<br> +Gone, gone, sold and gone<br> +To the rice swamp dank and lone,<br> +From Virginia hills and waters—<br> Woe is me, my stolen daughters!” </p> @@ -1971,7 +2006,7 @@ favorable opportunity. When that came, I was determined to be off. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0009"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0009"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2> <p> I have now reached a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, @@ -2140,7 +2175,7 @@ the smallest consideration to a hungry man. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0010"></a>CHAPTER X</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0010"></a>CHAPTER X</h2> <p> I had left Master Thomas’s house, and went to live with Mr. Covey, on the 1st @@ -2689,12 +2724,12 @@ hands of Mr. Edward Covey. <p> Mr. Freeland was himself the owner of but two slaves. Their names were Henry Harris and John Harris. The rest of his hands he hired. These consisted of -myself, Sandy Jenkins,<a href="#fn-1" name="fnref-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> and +myself, Sandy Jenkins,<a href="#fn-1" id="fnref-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> and Handy Caldwell. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn-1"></a> <a href="#fnref-1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn-1"></a> <a href="#fnref-1">[1]</a> This is the same man who gave me the roots to prevent my being whipped by Mr. Covey. He was “a clever soul.” We used frequently to talk about the fight with Covey, and as often as we did so, he would claim my success as the result of @@ -2828,7 +2863,7 @@ appalled us, and made us </p> <p class="poem"> -“rather bear those ills we had,<br/> +“rather bear those ills we had,<br> Than fly to others, that we knew not of.” </p> @@ -2872,7 +2907,7 @@ mine own hand, &c., 1835. </p> <p class="right"> -“W<small>ILLIAM</small> H<small>AMILTON</small>,<br/> +“W<small>ILLIAM</small> H<small>AMILTON</small>,<br> “Near St. Michael’s, in Talbot county, Maryland.” </p> @@ -3205,7 +3240,7 @@ high seas is exactly the same. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2HCH0011"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2> +<h2><a id="link2HCH0011"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2> <p> I now come to that part of my life during which I planned, and finally @@ -3446,7 +3481,7 @@ to go; as he deemed it unsafe for me to remain in New York. I told him I was a calker, and should like to go where I could get work. I thought of going to Canada; but he decided against it, and in favor of my going to New Bedford, thinking I should be able to get work there at my trade. At this time, Anna,<a -href="#fn-2" name="fnref-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> my intended wife, came on; for I +href="#fn-2" id="fnref-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> my intended wife, came on; for I wrote to her immediately after my arrival at New York, (notwithstanding my homeless, houseless, and helpless condition,) informing her of my successful flight, and wishing her to come on forthwith. In a few days after her arrival, @@ -3457,22 +3492,22 @@ ceremony, and gave us a certificate, of which the following is an exact copy:— <p class="letter"> “This may certify, that I joined together in holy matrimony Frederick Johnson<a -href="#fn-3" name="fnref-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> and Anna Murray, as man and +href="#fn-3" id="fnref-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> and Anna Murray, as man and wife, in the presence of Mr. David Ruggles and Mrs. Michaels. </p> <p class="right"> -“J<small>AMES</small> W. C. P<small>ENNINGTON</small><br/> +“J<small>AMES</small> W. C. P<small>ENNINGTON</small><br> “<i>New York, Sept</i>. 15, 1838” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn-2"></a> <a href="#fnref-2">[2]</a> +<a id="fn-2"></a> <a href="#fnref-2">[2]</a> She was free. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn-3"></a> <a href="#fnref-3">[3]</a> +<a id="fn-3"></a> <a href="#fnref-3">[3]</a> I had changed my name from Frederick <i>Bailey</i> to that of <i>Johnson</i>. </p> @@ -3613,7 +3648,7 @@ for myself and newly-married wife. It was to me the starting-point of a new existence. When I got through with that job, I went in pursuit of a job of calking; but such was the strength of prejudice against color, among the white calkers, that they refused to work with me, and of course I could get no -employment.<a href="#fn-4" name="fnref-4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> Finding my trade +employment.<a href="#fn-4" id="fnref-4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> Finding my trade of no immediate benefit, I threw off my calking habiliments, and prepared myself to do any kind of work I could get to do. Mr. Johnson kindly let me have his wood-horse and saw, and I very soon found myself a plenty of work. There @@ -3623,7 +3658,7 @@ three years in New Bedford, before I became known to the anti-slavery world. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn-4"></a> <a href="#fnref-4">[4]</a> +<a id="fn-4"></a> <a href="#fnref-4">[4]</a> I am told that colored persons can now get employment at calking in New Bedford—a result of anti-slavery effort. </p> @@ -3663,7 +3698,7 @@ those acquainted with my labors to decide. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="link2H_APPE"></a>APPENDIX</h2> +<h2><a id="link2H_APPE"></a>APPENDIX</h2> <p> I find, since reading over the foregoing Narrative, that I have, in several @@ -3717,23 +3752,23 @@ dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise. </p> <p class="poem"> -“Just God! and these are they,v Who minister at thine altar, God of right!<br/> -Men who their hands, with prayer and blessing, lay<br/> -On Israel’s ark of light.<br/> -<br/> -“What! preach, and kidnap men?<br/> -Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor?<br/> -Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then<br/> -Bolt hard the captive’s door?<br/> -<br/> -“What! servants of thy own<br/> -Merciful Son, who came to seek and save<br/> -The homeless and the outcast, fettering down<br/> -The tasked and plundered slave!<br/> -<br/> -“Pilate and Herod friends!<br/> -Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!<br/> -Just God and holy! is that church which lends<br/> +“Just God! and these are they,v Who minister at thine altar, God of right!<br> +Men who their hands, with prayer and blessing, lay<br> +On Israel’s ark of light.<br> +<br> +“What! preach, and kidnap men?<br> +Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor?<br> +Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then<br> +Bolt hard the captive’s door?<br> +<br> +“What! servants of thy own<br> +Merciful Son, who came to seek and save<br> +The homeless and the outcast, fettering down<br> +The tasked and plundered slave!<br> +<br> +“Pilate and Herod friends!<br> +Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!<br> +Just God and holy! is that church which lends<br> Strength to the spoiler thine?” </p> @@ -3799,87 +3834,87 @@ manners, and piety, with his own eyes. “Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” </p> -<p class="center"><a name="link2H_4_0016"></a> +<p class="center"><a id="link2H_4_0016"></a> <b>A PARODY</b> </p> <p class="poem"> -“Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell<br/> -How pious priests whip Jack and Nell,<br/> -And women buy and children sell,<br/> -And preach all sinners down to hell,<br/> -And sing of heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“They’ll bleat and baa, dona like goats,<br/> -Gorge down black sheep, and strain at motes,<br/> -Array their backs in fine black coats,<br/> -Then seize their negroes by their throats,<br/> -And choke, for heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“They’ll church you if you sip a dram,<br/> -And damn you if you steal a lamb;<br/> -Yet rob old Tony, Doll, and Sam,<br/> -Of human rights, and bread and ham;<br/> -Kidnapper’s heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“They’ll loudly talk of Christ’s reward,<br/> -And bind his image with a cord,<br/> -And scold, and swing the lash abhorred,<br/> -And sell their brother in the Lord<br/> -To handcuffed heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“They’ll read and sing a sacred song,<br/> -And make a prayer both loud and long,<br/> -And teach the right and do the wrong,<br/> -Hailing the brother, sister throng,<br/> -With words of heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“We wonder how such saints can sing,<br/> -Or praise the Lord upon the wing,<br/> -Who roar, and scold, and whip, and sting,<br/> -And to their slaves and mammon cling,<br/> -In guilty conscience union.<br/> -<br/> -“They’ll raise tobacco, corn, and rye,<br/> -And drive, and thieve, and cheat, and lie,<br/> -And lay up treasures in the sky,<br/> -By making switch and cowskin fly,<br/> -In hope of heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“They’ll crack old Tony on the skull,<br/> -And preach and roar like Bashan bull,<br/> -Or braying ass, of mischief full,<br/> -Then seize old Jacob by the wool,<br/> -And pull for heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“A roaring, ranting, sleek man-thief,<br/> -Who lived on mutton, veal, and beef,<br/> -Yet never would afford relief<br/> -To needy, sable sons of grief,<br/> -Was big with heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“‘Love not the world,’ the preacher said,<br/> -And winked his eye, and shook his head;<br/> -He seized on Tom, and Dick, and Ned,<br/> -Cut short their meat, and clothes, and bread,<br/> -Yet still loved heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“Another preacher whining spoke<br/> -Of One whose heart for sinners broke:<br/> -He tied old Nanny to an oak,<br/> -And drew the blood at every stroke,<br/> -And prayed for heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“Two others oped their iron jaws,<br/> -And waved their children-stealing paws;<br/> -There sat their children in gewgaws;<br/> -By stinting negroes’ backs and maws,<br/> -They kept up heavenly union.<br/> -<br/> -“All good from Jack another takes,<br/> -And entertains their flirts and rakes,<br/> -Who dress as sleek as glossy snakes,<br/> -And cram their mouths with sweetened cakes;<br/> +“Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell<br> +How pious priests whip Jack and Nell,<br> +And women buy and children sell,<br> +And preach all sinners down to hell,<br> +And sing of heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“They’ll bleat and baa, dona like goats,<br> +Gorge down black sheep, and strain at motes,<br> +Array their backs in fine black coats,<br> +Then seize their negroes by their throats,<br> +And choke, for heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“They’ll church you if you sip a dram,<br> +And damn you if you steal a lamb;<br> +Yet rob old Tony, Doll, and Sam,<br> +Of human rights, and bread and ham;<br> +Kidnapper’s heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“They’ll loudly talk of Christ’s reward,<br> +And bind his image with a cord,<br> +And scold, and swing the lash abhorred,<br> +And sell their brother in the Lord<br> +To handcuffed heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“They’ll read and sing a sacred song,<br> +And make a prayer both loud and long,<br> +And teach the right and do the wrong,<br> +Hailing the brother, sister throng,<br> +With words of heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“We wonder how such saints can sing,<br> +Or praise the Lord upon the wing,<br> +Who roar, and scold, and whip, and sting,<br> +And to their slaves and mammon cling,<br> +In guilty conscience union.<br> +<br> +“They’ll raise tobacco, corn, and rye,<br> +And drive, and thieve, and cheat, and lie,<br> +And lay up treasures in the sky,<br> +By making switch and cowskin fly,<br> +In hope of heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“They’ll crack old Tony on the skull,<br> +And preach and roar like Bashan bull,<br> +Or braying ass, of mischief full,<br> +Then seize old Jacob by the wool,<br> +And pull for heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“A roaring, ranting, sleek man-thief,<br> +Who lived on mutton, veal, and beef,<br> +Yet never would afford relief<br> +To needy, sable sons of grief,<br> +Was big with heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“‘Love not the world,’ the preacher said,<br> +And winked his eye, and shook his head;<br> +He seized on Tom, and Dick, and Ned,<br> +Cut short their meat, and clothes, and bread,<br> +Yet still loved heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“Another preacher whining spoke<br> +Of One whose heart for sinners broke:<br> +He tied old Nanny to an oak,<br> +And drew the blood at every stroke,<br> +And prayed for heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“Two others oped their iron jaws,<br> +And waved their children-stealing paws;<br> +There sat their children in gewgaws;<br> +By stinting negroes’ backs and maws,<br> +They kept up heavenly union.<br> +<br> +“All good from Jack another takes,<br> +And entertains their flirts and rakes,<br> +Who dress as sleek as glossy snakes,<br> +And cram their mouths with sweetened cakes;<br> And this goes down for union.” </p> @@ -3910,4 +3945,3 @@ THE END </body> </html> - diff --git a/23-h/images/cover.jpg b/23-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c5a8939 --- /dev/null +++ b/23-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt index d67a7e0..b5dba15 100644 --- a/LICENSE.txt +++ b/LICENSE.txt 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