His going out into the world, is like a living man going into the tomb, who, with open eyes, sees himself buried out of sight and hearing of wife, children and friends of kindred tie.
In his autobiography, Douglass uses a powerful metaphor to convey the profound and permanent loss experienced by an enslaved person sold away from their family.
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The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.
Put us in Kansas or in Africa, and until we learn to save more than we spend, we are sure to sink and perish.