Frederick Douglass: “It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845

It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

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Frederick Douglass

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In his autobiography, Douglass describes the deliberate intellectual and moral suppression required to keep a person enslaved.

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