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Her patients and their stories illustrate different phases of healing and show how people can choose to escape the prisons they construct in their minds and find freedom, regardless of circumstance. This passage appears in chapter x of the narrative, in which douglass relates his plans to escape with several fellow slaves from william freelands. He landed in the middle of a minefield in front of the enemy barbed wire and was captured. After joseph died the new egyptian pharaoh began to realize that the israelite population was on the rise and oppressed them by making them slaves. The book covers the planning, execution and aftermath of what became known as the great escape. Several times in the narrative, douglass describes in detail the explicit dangers that slaves face in attempting escape. Inside each philosophy guide youll find insightful overviews of great philosophical works of the western world.
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