It was the interest and business of slaveholders to study human nature, and the slave nature in particular, with a view to practical results; and many of them attained astonishing proficiency in this direction.
In his autobiography, Douglass describes the calculated methods slaveholders used to control enslaved people.
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The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
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