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It is not a story to increase our sense of social safety and security, but to fill the imagination with wild and troubled fancies of doubt and danger.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It is not a story to increase our sense of social safety and security, but to fill the imagination with wild and…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass warns that the story of John Brown evokes feelings of doubt and danger rather than safety.
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