1 Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of Janu-ary, , after a bondage of twelve years—it has been sugges-ted that an account of my life and fortunes would not be unin-teresting to the public.