On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Nor would he now be leaving the South as from a doomed city and seeking a home in the uncongenial North, but tilling his native soil in comparative independence.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Nor would he now be leaving the South as from a doomed city and seeking a home in the uncongenial North, but tilling his…”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, reflecting on the failures of Reconstruction and the forced migration of Black Americans from the South.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
Jan 1, 1881
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
Jan 1, 1881
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
Jan 1, 1881
We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.