“The reader already knows enough of the ill effects of good treatment on a slave to anticipate what was now the case in my improved condition. It was not long before I began to show signs of disquiet with slavery, and to look around for means to get out of it by the shortest route.”
From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)
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