Fortunately for me, in the four years of my labors in the abolition cause, I had gained many friends, who would have suffered themselves to be taxed to almost any extent to save me from slavery.
Douglass reflects on the support he received from friends in the abolitionist movement during his escape from slavery.
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It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.