What Did Fredrick Douglas Say to His Former Master?

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10 years to the day after Fredrick Douglas escaped slavery, he wrote a letter to his former master - Thomas Auld. He spelled out the terribleness of slavery but ended on a personal and friendly note. The lesson from black history is that you can have incredible political divides but still be personal and even friendly. No divide can be greater than a slave and their slave-owner. Douglas would not cancel Auld.

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