On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I was no longer a servile coward, trembling under the frown of a brother worm of the dust, but, my long-cowed spirit was roused to an attitude of manly independence.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I was no longer a servile coward, trembling under the frown of a brother worm of the dust, but, my long-cowed spirit was…”
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Douglass describes his profound personal change after an act of resistance, moving from a state of fear and subservience to one of assertive independence.
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