For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage. — Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage. — Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage. — Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage. — Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage. — Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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