On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
They do not give the slaves this time because they would not like to have their work during its continuance, but because they know it would be unsafe to deprive them of it.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Douglass explains that slaveholders grant holidays not out of kindness, but from fear of slave rebellion.
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