If every anti-slavery tongue in the nation were silent-- every anti-slavery organization dissolved--every anti-slavery periodical, paper, pamphlet, book, or what not, searched out, burned to ashes, and their ashes given to the four winds of heaven, still, still the slaveholder could have no peace.
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the institution of slavery inherently prevents peace for slaveholders, regardless of efforts to suppress abolitionist voices.
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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.