Frederick Douglass: “In reading your life, no one can say that we have unfairly picked out…”

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In reading your life, no one can say that we have unfairly picked out some rare specimens of cruelty.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that the accounts of cruelty in a person's life are representative of the broader experience of slavery.

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