The colored people of the South, just beginning to accumulate a little property, and to lay the foundation of family, should not be in haste to sell that little and be off to the banks of the Mississippi.
In his autobiography, Douglass cautions Black Southerners against hastily abandoning their nascent property and family foundations to join the exodus movement.
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The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.