The fighting madness had come upon me, and I found my strong fingers firmly attached to the throat of the tyrant, as heedless of consequences, at the moment, as if we stood as equals before the law.
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the intensity of his physical struggle against his enslaver, Covey, and the sense of equality it momentarily created.
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For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.