This motif inevitably takes us back to his statement of authorship i.e.: The phrase "Written by Himself" which persuasively made the entire text seems more authentic. ... Thus, in Douglass's preface, William Lloyd Garrison pledges that Douglass's Narrative is "essentially true in all its statements; that nothing has been set down in malice, nothing exaggerated" (p. viii). ...

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More whites died during the rebellion led by Turner than in any other slave revolt in the nation's history. ... Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, second inaugural address, and many of his other speeches and writings are statements of democratic beliefs and goals. ...

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