Frederick Douglass: “It is, then, the first business of the enslaver of men to blunt…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

It is, then, the first business of the enslaver of men to blunt, deaden, and destroy the central principle of human responsibility.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that the primary task of an enslaver is to suppress and obliterate the fundamental human capacity for responsibility.

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