It did seem that every time the young tendrils of my affection became attached, they were rudely broken by some unnatural outside power; and I was beginning to look away to heaven for the rest denied me on earth.
From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the emotional pain of separation and the search for spiritual solace under slavery.
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