In the month of August 1841 I attended an antislavery convention in Nantucket at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with Frederick Douglass the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but having recently made his escape from the southern prison-house of bondage and feeling his curiosity excited to ascertain the  principles and measures of the abolitionists of whom he had heard a somewhat vague description while he was a slave he was induced to give his attendance on the occasion alluded to though at that time a resident in New Bedford.