Frederick Douglass: “Public opinion in such a quarter, the reader will see, is not likely…”

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Public opinion in such a quarter, the reader will see, is not likely to very efficient in protecting the slave from cruelty.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass highlights the limitations of public opinion in protecting enslaved individuals from cruelty.

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