On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The possibility of ever becoming anything but an abject slave, a mere machine in the hands of an owner, had now fled, and it seemed to me it had fled forever.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The possibility of ever becoming anything but an abject slave, a mere machine in the hands of an owner, had now fled…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass reflects on the crushing realization that his aspirations for freedom and individuality were extinguished by the reality of being an enslaved person.
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