Frederick Douglass: “Yet in the United States, human beings are thus branded.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Yet in the United States, human beings are thus branded.

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Frederick Douglass

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Following a comparison to animal cruelty, Douglass starkly states that human beings were subjected to branding in the United States under slavery.

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