Frederick Douglass: “She hates its very presence, and when a slaveholding woman hates, she…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

She hates its very presence, and when a slaveholding woman hates, she wants not means to give that hate telling effect.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass describes the intense hatred and cruelty that slaveholding women often directed towards mixed-race children, whom they viewed as an offense.

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