You have been with us, too, some years, and can fairly compare the twilight of rights, which your race enjoy at the North, with that “noon of night” under which they labor south of Mason and Dixon’s line.
Douglass contrasts the rights of African Americans in the North with the severe oppression faced in the South.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.