The people of Scotland are, to this day, deeply grieved at the course pursued by the Free Church, and would hail, as a relief from a deep and blighting shame, the “sending back the money” to the slaveholders from whom it was gathered.
Douglass expresses the ongoing shame felt by the Scottish people regarding their church's financial ties to slavery.
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Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.