On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Michael’s, like slaveholders elsewhere, would always prefer to see the slaves engaged in degrading sports, rather than to see them acting like moral and accountable beings.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass asserts that slaveholders preferred enslaved people to engage in degrading activities rather than develop as moral and accountable individuals through education.
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