Thoughts and purposes so incendiary as those I now cherished, could not agitate the mind long, without danger of making themselves manifest to scrutinizing and unfriendly beholders.
In his autobiography, Douglass describes the internal struggle of concealing his plans for freedom from slaveholders.
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The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
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