Frederick Douglass: “Reason is imprisoned here and passions run wild.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

Reason is imprisoned here and passions run wild.

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Frederick Douglass

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In his autobiography, Douglass describes the moral and intellectual degradation that results from the dehumanizing conditions of slavery.

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