Frederick Douglass: “I prefer reading the laws to making any statement in confirmation of…”

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I prefer reading the laws to making any statement in confirmation of what I have said myself; for the slaveholders cannot object to this testimony, since it is the calm, the cool, the deliberate enactment of their wisest heads, of their most clear-sighted, their own constituted representatives.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

He emphasizes the importance of using slaveholders' own laws as evidence of the inhumanity of slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “I prefer reading the laws to making any statement in confirmation of what I have said myself; for the slaveholders…”

Editor's note · Context