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Frederick Douglass: “I had a deep satisfaction in the thought, that the rascality of slaveholders was not concealed from the eyes of the…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I had a deep satisfaction in the thought, that the rascality of slaveholders was not concealed from the eyes of the world, and that I was not alone in abhorring the cruelty and brutality of slavery.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass describes his profound relief upon discovering that the world was aware of the injustices of slavery and that he was not alone in his condemnation of it.

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