… that for safety’s sake, Douglass retire to his cabin.[17] The incident, heavily publicized in the British and Irish … Boston Times, quoted in the Liberator, October 3, 1845. [17] Blassingame, The Frederick Douglass Papers, I:142 … Blassingame I:125 (January 2, 1846) (SOURCE), I:221 (April 17, 1846) (SOURCE), for other examples of Douglass’s …