Frederick Douglass: “If life is more than breath and the “quick round of blood,” I lived…”

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If life is more than breath and the “quick round of blood,” I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave life.

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Frederick Douglass

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He emphasizes the profound difference in living freely compared to his life as a slave.

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Frederick Douglass: “If life is more than breath and the “quick round of blood,” I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave…”