On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
I might become a husband, a father, an aged man, but through all, from birth to death, from the cradle to the grave, I had felt myself doomed.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I might become a husband, a father, an aged man, but through all, from birth to death, from the cradle to the grave, I…”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the profound despair and sense of a predetermined, bleak future that slavery imposed upon him.
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