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| Topic | It's crazy to think that some of these people are still alive. |
| coolguyjimmy 02/13/22 5:18:13 PM #21: | "In the southern part of the United States, I was a slave, thought of and spoken of as property In the northern states, a fugitive slave, liable to be hunted at any moment, like a felon, and to be hurled into the terrible jaws of slaverydoomed by an inveterate prejudice against color to insult and outrage on every hand [] denied the privileges and courtesies common to others in the use of the most humble means of conveyancesshut out from the cabins on steamboatsrefused admission to respectable hotelscaricatured, scorned, scoffed, and maltreated with impunity by any one, (no matter how black his heart,) so he has a white skin. But now behold the change! Eleven days and a half gone, and I have crossed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man" - Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, published in 1855 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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