Frederick Douglass: “For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst.

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Frederick Douglass

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In his autobiography, Douglass asserts his experience that religious slaveholders were the most cruel.

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