On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Knowing this fact as the slaveholder did, and judging the slave by himself, he naturally concluded that the slave would be idle whenever the cause for this fear was absent.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Knowing this fact as the slaveholder did, and judging the slave by himself, he naturally concluded that the slave would…”
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Douglass explains the slaveholder's flawed reasoning, believing that enslaved people would only work out of fear and would be idle without it.
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