I was called forward, and responded with all the energy of my soul, for I looked upon suffrage to the negro as the only measure which could prevent him from being thrust back into slavery.
Speaking at the Loyalist National Convention, Douglass explains his fervent belief that Black suffrage is essential to prevent re-enslavement.
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I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.