Frederick Douglass: “It gave me the best assurance that I might rely with the utmost…”

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It gave me the best assurance that I might rely with the utmost confidence on the results which, he said, would flow from teaching me to read.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass reflects on the confidence he gained from his master's warning about the dangers of teaching him to read.

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