It is plain, that everything like rational enjoyment among the slaves, is frowned upon; and only those wild and low sports, peculiar to semi-civilized people, are encouraged.
In his autobiography, Douglass observes that slaveholders discouraged genuine enjoyment among enslaved people, promoting only degrading forms of recreation.
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