The fighting madness had come upon me, and I found my strong fingers firmly attached to the throat of the tyrant, as heedless of consequences, at the moment, as if we stood as equals before the law.
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the intensity of his physical struggle against his enslaver, Covey, and the sense of equality it momentarily created.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.
They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.