On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
And all this is necessary; it is necessary to resort to these cruelties, in order to make the slave a slave, and to keep him a slave.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “And all this is necessary; it is necessary to resort to these cruelties, in order to make the slave a slave, and to keep…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass asserts that the cruelties inflicted upon enslaved people are not incidental but are fundamentally necessary to establish and maintain their enslaved condition.
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