On the record
They are recorded on your ledger, or perhaps have been sold to human flesh-mongers, with a view to filling our own ever-hungry purse.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “They are recorded on your ledger, or perhaps have been sold to human flesh-mongers, with a view to filling our own…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass accuses slaveholders of treating enslaved people as mere commodities for profit, highlighting the dehumanization of slavery.
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