On the record
Plummer—was a man like most of his class, little better than a human brute; and, in addition to his general profligacy and repulsive coarseness, the creature was a miserable drunkard.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Plummer—was a man like most of his class, little better than a human brute; and, in addition to his general profligacy…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes the overseer Plummer as a brutal and morally corrupt individual, reflecting on the nature of those who enforce slavery.
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