Frederick Douglass: “I must have perished with cold, but that, the coldest nights, I used…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845

I must have perished with cold, but that, the coldest nights, I used to steal a bag which was used for carrying corn to the mill.

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Frederick Douglass

Source

In his autobiography, Douglass recounts the extreme measures he took to survive the brutal cold as a child slave.

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