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Frederick Douglass: “Our children—our boys and girls—I have tonight seen the delightful sympathy of their hearts evinced by their heaving…”

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Our children—our boys and girls—I have tonight seen the delightful sympathy of their hearts evinced by their heaving breasts, while their eyes sparkled with wonder and admiration, that this black man—this slave—had so much logic, so much wit, so much fancy, so much eloquence.
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Frederick Douglass

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He observes the admiration and sympathy of children towards a black man eloquently speaking about slavery.

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