On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
But, by this time, I began to want to live upon free land as well as with Freeland; and I was no longer content, therefore, to live with him or any other slaveholder.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “But, by this time, I began to want to live upon free land as well as with Freeland; and I was no longer content…”
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Douglass describes his increasing discontent with his enslaved condition and his burgeoning desire for true freedom.
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