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in the narrative of frederick douglass, which character is meant to symbolize the corrupting influence of slavery?

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Sophia appears in the Narrative as a symbolic character as well as a realistic character. Her symbolism of a culture's corruption is an important emotional component of Douglass's larger argument against slavery.
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