But for the responsibility of conducting a public journal, and the necessity imposed upon me of meeting opposite views from abolitionists outside of New England, I should in all probability have remained firm in my disunion views.
Douglass attributes his shift away from disunionist views to the intellectual demands of editing a public journal and engaging with diverse abolitionist perspectives.
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