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By Frederick Douglass
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past, troubled me, and I longed to have a future—a future with hope in it.
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- My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855 · Incipient Steps Toward Escape, p. 273
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1855 first edition, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan)
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From Douglass's autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855). This is the text of the first edition.