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Frederick Douglass: “As if it were less cruel to reduce a human being to the condition of a thing, than to give him a severe flagellation, or…”

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As if it were less cruel to reduce a human being to the condition of a thing, than to give him a severe flagellation, or to deprive him of necessary food and clothing!
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Frederick Douglass

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He compares the cruelty of reducing a human to a mere object with the physical punishments inflicted upon them, emphasizing the inhumanity of slavery.

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