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Frederick Douglass: “But slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
But slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass asserts that slavery quickly stripped his mistress of her virtuous qualities and destroyed the happiness of her home.

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