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.

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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.”