Frederick Douglass: “I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced to be endured.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

This passage expresses Douglass's particular outrage at the blatant and undeniable theft of his earnings, which he found intolerable.

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