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By Frederick Douglass
I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845 · Narrative of the Life, 1845 first edition, p. 99
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- Internet Archive (Wellesley College Library scan of the Boston: Anti-Slavery Office edition, 1845)
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From Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845). This is the text of the first edition.