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By Frederick Douglass
If there be one crevice through which a single drop can fall, it will certainly rust off the slave's chain.
- Source
- My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855 · Life as a Slave, p. 320 (end of Chapter XX)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1855 first edition, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan)
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From Douglass's autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855). This is the text of the first edition. This is the last sentence of the chapter, in a passage about what it takes to keep a person content in slavery.