Frederick Douglass: “He will convince the slave that his wrath is far more terrible and…”

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

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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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