The slaveholder finds it necessary to have these implements to keep the slave in bondage; finds it necessary to be able to say, “Unless you do so and so; unless you do as I bid you—I will take away your life!
Douglass explains that slaveholders rely on instruments of torture and the ultimate threat of death to enforce obedience and maintain bondage.
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