On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The nearer are the lines of a slave state and the borders of a free one, the greater the peril.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The nearer are the lines of a slave state and the borders of a free one, the greater the peril.”
Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Douglass explains the heightened dangers and surveillance faced by enslaved people attempting to escape from slave states bordering free territory.
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