Frederick Douglass: “Yet I did hope for success, and persisted in the undertaking.”

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Yet I did hope for success, and persisted in the undertaking.

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Frederick Douglass

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Despite his doubts, Douglass expresses hope and determination to succeed in his journalistic endeavors.

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