Born for another’s benefit, as the firstling of the cabin flock I was soon to be selected as a meet offering to the fearful and inexorable demigod, whose huge image on so many occasions haunted my childhood’s imagination.
From his autobiography, Douglass describes his early understanding of being born into slavery, destined to be an offering to the powerful and feared master.
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Let us then, wherever we are, whether at the North or at the South, resolutely struggle on in the belief that there is a better day coming, and that we by patience, industry, uprightness, and economy may hasten that better day.
Put us in Kansas or in Africa, and until we learn to save more than we spend, we are sure to sink and perish.