... bloody persecution," but he states emphatically that he is adamantly opposed to anyone revealing the means whereby slaves escape. At this time money became a key for freedom, a key as important as knowledge. Douglass needed money to buy his passage to New York. The white and black workers there were healthier, happier, and more prosperous than those in the South. Northern living conditions were ... ...

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