The time is at hand when the last American slave, and the last American slaveholder will disappear behind the curtain which separates the living from the dead, and when neither master nor slave will be left to tell the story of their respective relations, and what happened in those relations to either.
Concluding his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the impending end of the generation that experienced slavery, emphasizing the historical significance of their stories.
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