On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Not until this last separation, dear reader, had I touched those profounder depths of desolation, which it is the lot of slaves often to reach.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass describes the ultimate emotional devastation he experienced through forced separation, a common fate for enslaved people.
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