Frederick Douglass: “What are the shouts of the multitude, the pride and pomp of this…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

What are the shouts of the multitude, the pride and pomp of this world?

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass poses a rhetorical question about the fleeting nature of worldly praise and power in the face of mortality.

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