On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
It furnished me a new insight into the unnatural power to which I was subjected.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It furnished me a new insight into the unnatural power to which I was subjected.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes how a personal experience illuminated the profound and unjust power wielded by slaveholders over the enslaved.
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