To have a home, the Negro must have a country, and he is an enemy to the moral progress of the Negro, whether he knows it or not, who calls upon him to break up his home in this country, for an uncertain home in Africa.
Douglass emphasizes the importance of a stable home for African Americans in the context of their identity and belonging.
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I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
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.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.