Frederick Douglass: “I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845

I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like bettering the condition of my race.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass explains his deep personal motivation for secretly teaching other enslaved people.

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