On the record
A usual plan is, to make bets on a slave, that he can drink more whisky than any other; and so to induce a rivalry among them, for the mastery in this degradation.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “A usual plan is, to make bets on a slave, that he can drink more whisky than any other; and so to induce a rivalry among…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes a disturbing practice where slaveholders encourage competition among slaves to see who can drink the most, further degrading their humanity.
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