Frederick Douglass: “Not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845

Not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness even among slaveholders.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

From his autobiography, Douglass describes the extreme cruelty of slaveholders who deny their enslaved people sufficient food.

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Frederick Douglass: “Not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness even among slaveholders.”