On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
I found among them a determination to protect each other from the blood-thirsty kidnapper, at all hazards.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I found among them a determination to protect each other from the blood-thirsty kidnapper, at all hazards.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass observes the strong sense of community and mutual protection among the free black population in New Bedford against the threat of slave catchers.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.
Jan 1, 1881
In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.
Jan 1, 1881
Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.