In this dialogue, the whole argument on behalf of slavery was brought forward by the master, all of which was disposed of by the slave. The dialogue represented the conversation which took place between them, when the slave was retaken the third time. The slave was represented as having run away from his master three times.
Among much of other interesting matter, I found in it a dialogue between a master and his slave. Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book. Just about this time, I got hold of a book entitled The Columbian Orator.
“I was now about twelve years old, and the thought of being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon my heart. In his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave published in 1845, he recounts how he was taught to read and how he sometimes felt that this had been a curse rather than a blessing. He described the book as an intellectual turning point that liberated him from the mental shackles of slavery. Throughout, he consistently paid tribute to the influence of The Columbian Orator.
Over the following 50 years, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York and an internationally acknowledged champion of equality and human rights. Frederick Douglass, dressed as a sailor and carrying forged identification papers, fled Maryland for New York with his few possessions, which included the book The Columbian Orator. ON September 3, 1838, the enslaved man who became the most famous social reformer and abolitionist in American history set off on his escape to freedom.
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