On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
They were as distinct from the slaveholding gentry of the south as are the fish-women of Paris, and the coal-heavers of London, distinct from other grades of society.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass vividly describes overseers as a distinct social class, separate from the slaveholding gentry.
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