Frederick Douglass: “I had reason to fear that my sable face might prove altogether too…”

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I had reason to fear that my sable face might prove altogether too transparent for the safe concealment of my hazardous enterprise.

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Frederick Douglass

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He fears that his emotions and intentions are too visible to those around him, complicating his plans.

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