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Jealous of their newly gained liberty, as well they might be, feeling themselves in peril and left naked to their enemies, their fears amounted to agony.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass describes the intense fear and vulnerability felt by newly freed African Americans regarding their liberty.
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