Frederick Douglass: “But now that the results of the war had changed all this, I had for…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

But now that the results of the war had changed all this, I had for several years determined to return to my old home upon the first opportunity.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass states his long-held intention to return to his childhood home, made possible by the transformative outcomes of the Civil War.

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Frederick Douglass: “But now that the results of the war had changed all this, I had for several years determined to return to my old home…”