On the record
This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass notes that slaveholders want slaves to enjoy the end of holidays as much as the beginning, reinforcing their control.
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