On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
She hates its very presence, and when a slaveholding woman hates, she wants not means to give that hate telling effect.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “She hates its very presence, and when a slaveholding woman hates, she wants not means to give that hate telling effect.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes the intense hatred and cruelty that slaveholding women often directed towards mixed-race children, whom they viewed as an offense.
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