Frederick Douglass: “And yet I could not but feel that I was the victim of something like…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

And yet I could not but feel that I was the victim of something like justice.

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Frederick Douglass

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From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the paradoxical feeling of receiving a form of justice despite the overall injustice of his situation.

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