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Frontispiece: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by himself Second Dublin edition. Webb & Chapman: Dublin, 1846.

Frontispiece: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by himself Second Dublin edition. Webb & Chapman: Dublin, 1846.

“I saw that slaveholders would have gladly made me believe that they were merely acting under the authority of God in making a slave of me and in making slaves of others, and I felt to them as to robbers and deceivers.”

From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)

Why I'm Reading: He was whipped oftener who was whipped easiest.

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