Frederick Douglass: “I had no notion of living on the honest and generous sympathy of my…”

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I had no notion of living on the honest and generous sympathy of my colored brother, Johnson, or that of the abolitionists.

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Frederick Douglass

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Here, Douglass expresses his desire to earn his own living rather than rely on the charity of others.

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