Frederick Douglass: “But I am here to say that I think the term slavery is sometimes abused…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

But I am here to say that I think the term slavery is sometimes abused by identifying it with that which it is not.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that the term "slavery" is often misused, obscuring the unique brutality of American chattel slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “But I am here to say that I think the term slavery is sometimes abused by identifying it with that which it is not.”