The consciousness that I was free--no longer a slave--kept me cheerful under this, and many similar proscriptions, which I was destined to meet in New Bedford, and elsewhere on the free soil of Massachusetts.
Douglass explains how the profound realization of his freedom allowed him to endure ongoing racial discrimination in the North.
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