On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
My feelings were not the result of any marked cruelty in the treatment I received; they sprung from the consideration of my being a slave at all.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass explains in his autobiography that his suffering as a slave stemmed from the condition of enslavement itself, not merely from specific cruelties.
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