Frederick Douglass: “In writing to a dear friend, immediately after my arrival at New York…”

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In writing to a dear friend, immediately after my arrival at New York, I said I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions.

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Frederick Douglass

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In this letter, Douglass expresses the overwhelming sense of relief and danger he felt after reaching New York.

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