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Frederick Douglass: “He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass describes the overseer Mr. Severe, emphasizing the sadistic pleasure he derived from inflicting cruelty upon enslaved people.

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