Advantage Quote by Frederick Douglass

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

— Frederick Douglass

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

— Henry Louis Gates

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

— Frederick Douglass

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one…

— Harriet Tubman

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think…

— Courtney B. Vance

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

— Mike Tyson

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as…

— Thomas Clarkson

“it was some time before I knew myself to be a slave.”

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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur

I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political…

— Assata Shakur