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Frederick Douglass: I felt as if surrounded by a pack of fiends fresh from perdition.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
I felt as if surrounded by a pack of fiends fresh from perdition.
Said by
Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass vividly describes his feeling of being tormented by the presence of slave traders in the jail.

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