Dear Diary,
Mom says we have to "go into hiding " what does that mean? Basically we have to make ourselves like ghosts, not letting anyone see us or even hear is. We have no clue for how long, they say until we are saved or caught.. Whichever come first .
Answer:
They were in a hurry and did not have time to pack properly.
In his speech <em>What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?</em>, Douglass argues that the state of Virginia has passed laws that punish slaves if they commit crime. He believes that the fact that these laws exist implies that the government believes slaves to be logical, moral, thinking humans that hold personal responsibility. Moreover, laws are passed against teaching them to read and write. These laws imply that slaves can be taught things, and that they have the capacity to learn. This establishes the "manhood" of slaves.
As the law of the United States has already established that all men have the right to own their own body and to freedom, and black people are, as proven, fully human, then it must be illegal to own them.
