On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the institution of slavery corrupted the slaveholder as much as it harmed the enslaved.
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