Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Items in clothing allowance?

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Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes; the whole of which could not have cost more than seven dollars.

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass