Thoughts and sentiments were exchanged between us, which might well be called very incendiary, by oppressors and tyrants; and perhaps the time has not even now come, when it is safe to unfold all the flying suggestions which arise in the minds of intelligent slaves.
Douglass reveals the subversive nature of the discussions held among enslaved people, which would be considered dangerous by their oppressors.
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