On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
The mode here adopted to disgust the slave with freedom, by allowing him to see only the abuse of it, is carried out in other things.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The mode here adopted to disgust the slave with freedom, by allowing him to see only the abuse of it, is carried out in…”
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In his autobiography, Douglass explains how slaveholders intentionally presented a distorted view of freedom to their enslaved people.
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