I was on the southern border of Lake Ontario, and the Queen’s Dominions were right over the way--and my prominence as an abolitionist, and as the editor of an anti-slavery paper, naturally made me the station master and conductor of the underground railroad passing through this goodly city.
Douglass describes how his location near the Canadian border and his public role as an abolitionist and editor naturally led him to become a key figure in the Underground Railroad.
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