Nevertheless, this colonizing scheme, unworthy as it is of American statesmanship, and American honour, and though full of mischief to the coloured people, seems to have a strong hold on the public mind, and at times has shown much life and vigor.
Douglass expresses skepticism about the colonization scheme and its impact on African Americans.
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His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.
I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.