On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
What may have been mechanically and heartlessly done by the overseer, is now done with a will.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “What may have been mechanically and heartlessly done by the overseer, is now done with a will.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass distinguishes between the often detached cruelty of an overseer and the deliberate, passionate brutality of a slaveholder acting on personal will.
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