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Frederick Douglass: “He could create the offense whenever it pleased him.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
He could create the offense whenever it pleased him.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context

From his autobiography, Douglass describes the unchecked authority of an overseer to invent reasons for punishing enslaved people.

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