On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
My poor mother, like many other slave-women, had many children, but NO FAMILY!
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “My poor mother, like many other slave-women, had many children, but NO FAMILY!”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass laments that slave mothers, despite bearing many children, were systematically denied the fundamental human experience of having a family.
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