On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Few slave-mothers know anything of the months of the year, nor of the days of the month.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Few slave-mothers know anything of the months of the year, nor of the days of the month.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes the deliberate deprivation of basic calendrical knowledge among enslaved mothers, preventing them from tracking their children's ages.
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