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Frederick Douglass: “I had never been deceived before; and I felt not only grieved at parting—as I supposed forever—with my grandmother, but…”

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I had never been deceived before; and I felt not only grieved at parting—as I supposed forever—with my grandmother, but indignant that a trick had been played upon me in a matter so serious.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass expresses his feelings of grief and indignation over being deceived about his grandmother's departure.

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