Jan 1, 1855
He prefers to encounter a life of trial, however bitter, or death, however terrible, to dragging out his existence under the dominion of these kind masters.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century".
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Jan 1, 1855
He leaves the man of the bible, and takes refuge with the man of the tomahawk.
Jan 1, 1855
The slave finds more of the milk of human kindness in the bosom of the savage Indian, than in the heart of his Christian master.
Jan 1, 1855
I tell you, my friends, humanity is never driven to such an unnatural course of life, without great wrong.
Jan 1, 1855
If kindness were the rule, we should not see advertisements filling the columns of almost every southern newspaper, offering large rewards for fugitive slaves, and describing them as being branded with irons, loaded with chains, and…
Jan 1, 1855
The majority of slaveholders find it necessary, to insure obedience, at times, to avail themselves of the utmost extent of the law, and many go beyond it.
Jan 1, 1855
I admit that there are individual slaveholders less cruel and barbarous than is allowed by law; but these form the exception.
Jan 1, 1855
And yet I am bound to say that they fall short of indicating the horrible cruelties constantly practiced in the slave states.
Jan 1, 1855
A more atrocious and blood-thirsty string of laws could not well be conceived of.