On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
I became myself painfully alive to the liability which surrounded me, and which might at any moment scatter all my proud hopes, and return me to a doom worse than death.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I became myself painfully alive to the liability which surrounded me, and which might at any moment scatter all my proud…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes the constant threat of recapture he faced after publishing his autobiography, which revealed his identity as a fugitive slave.
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