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> # Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

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## More from Frederick Douglass

1. > I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment…

[Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/20/ "Permalink to quote 20")
2. > I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd's plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life. It is possible, and even quite probable, that but fo…

[Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/22/ "Permalink to quote 22")
3. > From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

[Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/19/ "Permalink to quote 19")

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