On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, illustrating the complete dispossession of freedmen from their former homes and means of sustenance after emancipation.
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