Frederick Douglass: “Slavery had inured me to hardships that made ordinary trouble sit…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

Slavery had inured me to hardships that made ordinary trouble sit lightly upon me.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass reflects on how the harsh realities of slavery had prepared him to endure lesser difficulties in his free life.

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Frederick Douglass: “Slavery had inured me to hardships that made ordinary trouble sit lightly upon me.”