By the law and the constitution, the negro is a man and a citizen, and has all the rights and liberties guaranteed to any other variety of the human family, residing in the United States.
Douglass affirms that, according to law and the Constitution, Black individuals are citizens with the same rights and liberties as any other person in the United States.
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For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.