On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
He seemed to see fully the pressing necessity of setting aside my intellectual nature, in order to contentment in slavery.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass observes his master's understanding that intellectual suppression was essential for an enslaved person to remain content in bondage.
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