On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
He had nothing left him but a slavery-distorted and diseased body, and lame and twisted limbs with which to fight the battle of life.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “He had nothing left him but a slavery-distorted and diseased body, and lame and twisted limbs with which to fight the…”
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Douglass describes the devastating physical legacy of slavery that newly freed individuals carried into their struggle for a new life.
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