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The Heroic Slave

By Frederick Douglass
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By Frederick Douglass
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"Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it... I have nothing to lose. If I am caught, I shall only be a slave. If I am shot, I shall only lose a life which is a burden and a curse. If I get clear, liberty, the inalienable birth-right of every man, precious and priceless, will be mine. My resolution is fixed. I shall be free."

-Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave


The Heroic Slave (1845), Frederick Douglass's only published work of fiction, is based on an actual event in which an e...