I early began to address my companions on the subject of education, and the advantages of intelligence over ignorance, and, as far as I dared, I tried to show the agency of ignorance in keeping men in slavery.
From his autobiography, Douglass describes his efforts to educate fellow enslaved people and highlight how ignorance perpetuates their bondage.
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