Warn people about jellyfish, and I never heard of people dying
At the emotional heart of the Douglass story is his incremental and unironic creation of an identity of freedom, and learning and accomplishment, despite the long odds, despite being born a slave. The three autobiographies allowed him total control over the creation and preservation of his own mythology. He grafted his life story into that of the larger American story by putting himself at the center of the most fractious questions facing the republic then, and maybe now: How do.
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