id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 99 Douglass, Frederick Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass .txt text/plain 8216 366 72 It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored answered somewhat the purpose of free papers--describing his person, and to the sea in ships." "Free trade and sailors' rights" just then afternoon, I inquired of a colored man how I could get on to New York. journey, I found myself in the big city of New York, a FREE MAN--one more blood," I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave life. a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: "I people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were hired men of In the country from which I came, a white man holding no slaves only a freeman, but a free working-man, and no "master" stood ready at Federal authority States into which no loyal man from the North may ./cache/99.txt ./txt/99.txt