… My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), 282; Blassingame, I:38 (October 14, 1845). As late as 1846, nearly a year after the … Frederick Douglass to Maria Weston Chapman, March 29, 1846, Weston Sisters Papers, Boston Public Library; … awarded the American owners of the freed slaves $110,330. [27] Cited in Blackett, Building an Antislavery Wall, 4. See …