Frederick Douglass: “Hard work, night and day, over a furnace hot enough to keep the metal…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

Hard work, night and day, over a furnace hot enough to keep the metal running like water, was more favorable to action than thought; yet here I often nailed a newspaper to the post near my bellows, and read while I was performing the up and down motion of the heavy beam by which the bellows was inflated and discharged.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

Douglass recounts his relentless pursuit of knowledge and reading even amidst the demanding and physically exhausting work at a brass foundry.

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Frederick Douglass: “Hard work, night and day, over a furnace hot enough to keep the metal running like water, was more favorable to action…”

Editor's note · Context