On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
If at any one time of my life, more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If at any one time of my life, more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was…”
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Douglass reflects on his time with Edward Covey, describing it as the period when he experienced the most profound suffering of his enslavement.
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