They are professedly a custom established by the benevolence of the slaveholders; but I undertake to say, it is the result of selfishness, and one of the grossest frauds committed upon the down-trodden slave.
From his autobiography, Douglass refutes the idea that slave holidays are benevolent, exposing them as a selfish fraud.
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I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.