Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.” ~ Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National EraSource: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [1845] (Toronto: New American Library, 1968), p. 103