Thoughts and sentiments were exchanged between us, which might well be called very incendiary, by oppressors and tyrants; and perhaps the time has not even now come, when it is safe to unfold all the flying suggestions which arise in the minds of intelligent slaves.
Douglass reveals the subversive nature of the discussions held among enslaved people, which would be considered dangerous by their oppressors.
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Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
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.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.