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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER XXV
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It is a pleasing circumstance that such a body of men has risen in America, and whilst we hurl our thunders against her slavers, let us make a distinction between those who advocate slavery and those who oppose it.

George Thompson has been there.

This man, Frederick Douglass, has been there, and has been compelled to flee.

I wish, when he first set foot on our shores, he had made a solemn vow, and said, "Now that I am free, and in the sanctuary of freedom, I will never return till I have seen the emancipation of my country completed." He wants to surround these men, the slaveholders, as by a wall of fire; and he himself may do much toward kindling it.
Let him travel over the island--east, west, north, and south--everywhere diffusing knowledge and awakening principle, till the whole nation become a body of petitioners to America.

He will, he must, do it.


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