On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The little taste of liberty which I had had—although as the reader will have seen, it was far from being unalloyed—by no means enhanced my contentment with slavery.
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Frederick Douglass
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From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on how a brief period of semi-freedom intensified his desire for true liberty and made slavery unbearable.
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