On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgHe seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.
Douglass describes the overseer Mr. Severe, emphasizing the sadistic pleasure he derived from inflicting cruelty upon enslaved people.
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The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.
To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.
None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.
Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.