It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ✨ The…

Frederick Douglass
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ✨ The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845) by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ✨ Frederick Douglass (2013). The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, p.128, Simon and Schuster
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, a … ▶
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. ✨ Frederick Douglass (2017). Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn, p.198, Akashic Books
Our destiny is largely in our hands.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ✨ The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845) by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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