Frederick Douglass: “I was just as well aware of the unjust, unnatural and murderous…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

I was just as well aware of the unjust, unnatural and murderous character of slavery, when nine years old, as I am now.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that his understanding of the inherent evil of slavery was as clear in his childhood as it was in his adulthood.

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Frederick Douglass: “I was just as well aware of the unjust, unnatural and murderous character of slavery, when nine years old, as I am now.”