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Frederick Douglass: “Little children, love one another,” are words seldom heard in a slave cabin.”

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Little children, love one another,” are words seldom heard in a slave cabin.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass highlights the absence of love and affection in the lives of enslaved children.

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