On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Men do not like to buy runaway horses, nor to invest their money in a species of property likely to take legs and walk off with itself.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Men do not like to buy runaway horses, nor to invest their money in a species of property likely to take legs and walk…”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass uses an analogy to illustrate why making slave property insecure would render it valueless.
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