On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
There were pride, pomp, and luxury on the one hand, servility, dejection, and misery on the other.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “There were pride, pomp, and luxury on the one hand, servility, dejection, and misery on the other.”
Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Douglass describes the profound social and economic disparities between slaveholders and the enslaved.
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