On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black…”
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In his autobiography, Douglass describes his profound realization about the connection between literacy and the power dynamics of slavery.
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