On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The possibility of ever becoming anything but an abject slave, a mere machine in the hands of an owner, had now fled, and it seemed to me it had fled forever.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The possibility of ever becoming anything but an abject slave, a mere machine in the hands of an owner, had now fled…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass reflects on the crushing realization that his aspirations for freedom and individuality were extinguished by the reality of being an enslaved person.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.
Jan 1, 1881
No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.