To tear off the mask from this abominable system, to expose it to the light of heaven, aye, to the heat of the sun, that it may burn and wither it out of existence, is my object in coming to this country.
Douglass declares his mission to expose and destroy the institution of slavery through public testimony.
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It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.