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Frederick Douglass: “He will convince the slave that his wrath is far more terrible and boundless, and vastly more to be dreaded, than that…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
He will convince the slave that his wrath is far more terrible and boundless, and vastly more to be dreaded, than that of the underling overseer.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass describes how a slaveholder's personal wrath instills a deeper and more profound terror in enslaved people than the cruelty of an overseer.

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