On the record
In reading your life, no one can say that we have unfairly picked out some rare specimens of cruelty.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “In reading your life, no one can say that we have unfairly picked out some rare specimens of cruelty.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass asserts that the accounts of cruelty in a person's life are representative of the broader experience of slavery.
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