Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation, artfully labelled with the name of liberty.
In his autobiography, Douglass describes how slaveholders manipulate slaves by presenting dissipation as a false form of liberty.
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The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
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Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
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