On the record
Yet, sir, your treatment of my beloved sisters is in all essential points precisely like the case I have now supposed.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Yet, sir, your treatment of my beloved sisters is in all essential points precisely like the case I have now supposed.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass draws a parallel between his own experiences and the treatment of women in slavery.
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