QuoteQuest“I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Ch. 10
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Douglass, Frederick. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
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