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Frederick Douglass: “I thought I saw, in his very religious devotions, this controlling element of his character.”

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I thought I saw, in his very religious devotions, this controlling element of his character.
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Frederick Douglass

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He suggests that the slaveholder's religious practices are influenced by their controlling nature.

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