On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
If ever I had any patriotism, or any capacity for the feeling, it was whipped out of me long since, by the lash of the American soul-drivers.
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Frederick Douglass
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From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on how the brutality of slavery destroyed any sense of patriotism he might have had for America.
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