mp douglass – 30. Parrying His Blows

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On two other occasions while there I came near losing my life, on one of which I was driving bolts in the hold through the keelson with Hays. In its course the bolt bent. Hays cursed me, and said that it was my blow which bent the bolt. I denied this, and charged it upon him. In a fit of rage he seized an adze and darted toward me. I met him with a maul and parried his blow, or I should have lost my life.

22. Parrying His Blows
12 inches x 18 inches
pen on paper
2014

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time
CHAPTER XX
APPRENTICESHIP LIFE.
Page 183

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