Frederick Douglass: “To me it has ever been a grief that I knew my mother so little, and…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

To me it has ever been a grief that I knew my mother so little, and have so few of her words treasured in my remembrance.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass expresses his enduring sorrow over the minimal time he spent with his mother and the scarcity of her memories.

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