Summoned away to her account, with the impassable gulf of slavery between us during her entire illness, my mother died without leaving me a single intimation of who my father was.
From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the tragic circumstances of his mother's death and the mystery of his parentage due to slavery.
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To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.
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