On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Thirty-nine lashes on my naked and bleeding back, would have been joyfully borne, in preference to this separation from these, the friends of my youth.
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Frederick Douglass
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Reflecting on the emotional devastation of forced separation, Douglass describes the profound pain of losing his friends.
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