On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
If this be parental affection, what is bitter malignity?
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If this be parental affection, what is bitter malignity?”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass uses a rhetorical question to expose the twisted definition of parental affection under slavery.
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