Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ✨ Frederick …

Frederick Douglass
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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
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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

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