Frederick Douglass: “I am here, also, because the slaveholders do not want me to be here…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

I am here, also, because the slaveholders do not want me to be here; they would rather that I were not here.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

Speaking in Britain, Douglass explains his presence as a strategic move against the wishes of slaveholders.

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Frederick Douglass: “I am here, also, because the slaveholders do not want me to be here; they would rather that I were not here.”