Frederick Douglass: “Asleep or awake, at work or at rest, in church or market, he was…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

Asleep or awake, at work or at rest, in church or market, he was liable to surprise and capture.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

Douglass describes the constant and pervasive threat of capture that an escaped enslaved person faced in every aspect of their life.

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