On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
He quits the homes of men for the haunts of wolves.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “He quits the homes of men for the haunts of wolves.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass uses a stark metaphor to convey the desperate flight of enslaved people from their so-called human homes.
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