On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
She has no control over them; the master is even more than the mother, in all matters touching the fate of her child.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “She has no control over them; the master is even more than the mother, in all matters touching the fate of her child.”
Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Douglass explains how the institution of slavery stripped slave mothers of any authority or control over their own children.
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