Frederick Douglass: “This woman’s back, for weeks, was kept literally raw, made so by the…”

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This woman’s back, for weeks, was kept literally raw, made so by the lash of this merciless, religious wretch.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass describes the brutal treatment of a female slave by a religious slaveholder.

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