On the record
I have known slaveholders resort to cunning tricks, with a view of getting their slaves deplorably drunk.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I have known slaveholders resort to cunning tricks, with a view of getting their slaves deplorably drunk.”
Editor's note · Context
He recounts how slaveholders would use cunning tricks to get their slaves excessively drunk, demonstrating the cruelty of their tactics.
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