On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
Now all the property of my old master, slaves included, was in the hands of strangers,—strangers who had had nothing to do with accumulating it.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass reflects on the dehumanizing reality of slaves being treated as property, passed between owners who had no personal connection to their accumulation.
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