On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I had jumped from a sinking ship into the sea; I had fled from the tiger to something worse.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I had jumped from a sinking ship into the sea; I had fled from the tiger to something worse.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, this powerful metaphor conveys his feeling of escaping one terrible situation only to find himself in another equally or more dire.
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