On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave.”
Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Douglass advocates for keeping slaveholders completely unaware of the methods used by enslaved people to escape.
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