On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the specific cruelties he describes are integral to the broader system of slavery's fraud and inhumanity.
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