On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
It would have been an invitation to the auction-block and the slave whip.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It would have been an invitation to the auction-block and the slave whip.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the brutal reality and implications of an invitation from a master during the era of slavery.
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