Frederick Douglass: “Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings, of scenes…”

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Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings, of scenes of pollution and blood, of the banishment of all light and knowledge, and they affect to be greatly indignant at such enormous exaggerations, such wholesale misstatements, such abominable libels on the character of the southern planters!

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

He describes the disbelief and dismissal faced by those who recount the horrors of slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings, of scenes of pollution and blood, of the banishment of all…”

Editor's note · Context