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I soon found that New York was not quite so free or so safe a refuge as I had supposed, and a sense of loneliness and insecurity again oppressed me most sadly.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass shares his disillusionment with New York, realizing it is not the safe haven he expected.
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