On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass expresses his intense contempt for slaveholders, whom he considered the most depraved of individuals.
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