On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I therefore made an effort so to improve my mind and deportment, as to be somewhat fitted to the station to which I seemed almost providentially called.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass explains his commitment to self-improvement to meet the demands of his new role as an abolitionist speaker.
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