Frederick Douglass: “She chose death, rather than to go back into the hands of those…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

She chose death, rather than to go back into the hands of those christian slaveholders from whom she had escaped.

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Frederick Douglass

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In his autobiography, Douglass recounts the tragic story of an enslaved woman who chose death over returning to her "christian slaveholders."

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