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Life and Times
Source Texts: Frederick Douglass' autobiographies Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881).
I. Ship's Prayer
You are loosed from your moorings
I am fast in my chains
You move before the gentle gale
I before the bloody whip
You are freedom's swift-winged angels
that fly round the world.
I am confined in bands of iron
O that I were free.
Alas! betwixt me and you,
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