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God is my witness that LIBERTY, not malice, is the motive for this night's work.

— Madison Washington (dialogue, in Tom Grant's account) · Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853), Part IV

We have done that which you applaud your fathers for doing, and if we are murderers, so were they.

— Madison Washington (dialogue, in Tom Grant's account) · Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853), Part IV

Mr. mate, you cannot write the bloody laws of slavery on those restless billows. The ocean, if not the land, is free.

— Madison Washington (dialogue, in Tom Grant's account) · Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853), Part IV

It was not that his principles were wrong in the abstract; for they are the principles of 1776.

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The Heroic Slave

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