Frederick Douglass: “The liability to be separated from my grandmother, seldom or never to…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

The liability to be separated from my grandmother, seldom or never to see her again, haunted me.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass describes the persistent fear of permanent separation from his grandmother that troubled his childhood.

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Frederick Douglass: “The liability to be separated from my grandmother, seldom or never to see her again, haunted me.”