Frederick Douglass: “The truth was, I felt myself a slave, and the idea of speaking to…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845

The truth was, I felt myself a slave, and the idea of speaking to white people weighed me down.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass explains the deep-seated psychological barrier he faced when first asked to address white audiences, stemming from his identity as a slave.

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Frederick Douglass: “The truth was, I felt myself a slave, and the idea of speaking to white people weighed me down.”