On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
It has been a life-long, standing grief to me, that I knew so little of my mother; and that I was so early separated from her.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It has been a life-long, standing grief to me, that I knew so little of my mother; and that I was so early separated…”
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Douglass expresses his enduring sorrow and the profound personal cost of being separated from his mother at a young age due to slavery.
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