On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
For ten or fifteen years I had been dragging a heavy chain, with a huge block attached to it, cumbering my every motion.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “For ten or fifteen years I had been dragging a heavy chain, with a huge block attached to it, cumbering my every motion.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass uses a powerful metaphor in his autobiography to convey the long-term, oppressive burden of his life in slavery.
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