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Frederick Douglass: Thus, when the slave asked for hours of “virtuous liberty,” his cunning master took advantage of his ignorance and…

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Thus, when the slave asked for hours of “virtuous liberty,” his cunning master took advantage of his ignorance and cheered him with a dose of vicious and revolting dissipation artfully labeled with the name of “liberty.
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Frederick Douglass

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From his autobiography, Douglass critiques how slaveholders manipulated the concept of liberty to further control enslaved people.

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