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

Source

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

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