Frederick Douglass: “Nature never intended that men and women should be either slaves or…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

Nature never intended that men and women should be either slaves or slaveholders, and nothing but rigid training long persisted in, can perfect the character of the one or the other.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

Douglass asserts that slavery is an unnatural institution that requires extensive conditioning to corrupt the character of both the enslaved and the enslaver.

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Frederick Douglass: “Nature never intended that men and women should be either slaves or slaveholders, and nothing but rigid training long…”

Editor's note · Context