My Bondage and My Freedom, sammanfattning av Chapter 22

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1. Joy at reaching New York gives way to hunger, isolation, and fear after William Dixon warns the narrator about slave-catchers.
2. Stewart brings him to David Ruggles, who shelters him, witnesses his marriage to Anna, and directs him toward New Bedford.
3. Nathan Johnson provides shelter, lends money to recover baggage, and gives the narrator a new name.
4. New Bedford’s prosperity challenges his assumptions about slavery, and its Black community offers protection against recapture.
5. He earns wages through manual labor after white workers block his trade, and church segregation drives him toward the Zion Methodists.
6. Reading the Liberator and hearing William Lloyd Garrison draw him into antislavery meetings and private advocacy.

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Paid work means control over his earnings rather than payment to an enslaver. His excitement makes economic independence a central part of freedom.

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