On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
I became not only ashamed to be contented in slavery, but ashamed to seem to be contented, and in my present favorable condition under the mild rule of Mr.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I became not only ashamed to be contented in slavery, but ashamed to seem to be contented, and in my present favorable…”
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Douglass recounts his growing moral conviction that even appearing content in slavery was a source of shame, regardless of the conditions.
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