Important as manual labor is everywhere, it is nowhere more important and absolutely indispensable to the existence of society than in the more southern of the United States.
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts the unique and critical role of manual labor in the Southern United States.
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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 father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.