Frederick Douglass: “Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings, of scenes of pollution and blood, of the banishment of all…”

“Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings, of scenes of pollution and blood, of the banishment of all light and knowledge, and they affect to be greatly indignant at such enormous exaggerations, such wholesale misstatements, such abominable libels on the character of the southern planters!”