Frederick Douglass: “Light is to slavery what the heat of the sun is to the root of a tree…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Light is to slavery what the heat of the sun is to the root of a tree; it must die under it.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

Douglass employs a natural metaphor to illustrate how the light of truth inevitably destroys the institution of slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “Light is to slavery what the heat of the sun is to the root of a tree; it must die under it.”