On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their…”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass explains how slavery stripped fundamental family terms like "brother" and "sister" of their inherent emotional and social significance.
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