Frederick Douglass: “It was a sad thing to me, that, loving each other as we had done, we…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

It was a sad thing to me, that, loving each other as we had done, we must now take different roads.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass laments the forced separation and altered relationship with his childhood friend, Thomas Auld, Jr., due to the constraints of slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “It was a sad thing to me, that, loving each other as we had done, we must now take different roads.”