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In this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave turned statesman describes how slave owners used the Christmas – New Year’s holidays to keep slaves content.

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”- Mark Twain “To begin, begin.”- William Wordsworth “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”- Lao Tzu “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not […]