Suffice it to say, that all of the peculiar modes of torture that were resorted to in the West India islands, are resorted to, I believe, even more frequently, in the United States of America.
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the brutal tortures of slavery in the West Indies were practiced even more frequently in the United States.
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