To what is Douglass speaking when he says, “You are loosed f…
To what is Douglass speaking when he says, “You are loosed from your mooring, and are free; I am fast in my chains and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly 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! Oh, that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing!”
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