Frederick Douglass: “Religious slaveholders, like religious persecutors, are ever extreme…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Religious slaveholders, like religious persecutors, are ever extreme in their malice and violence.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass compares the extreme cruelty of religious slaveholders to that of religious persecutors throughout history.

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Frederick Douglass: “Religious slaveholders, like religious persecutors, are ever extreme in their malice and violence.”