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Frederick Douglass and Slavery
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most distinguished and
influential black leaders of the nineteenth century. Douglass focused his
writings on the harshness and brutality of slavery. He describes in many of his
books accounts of his own experiences as a slave. A reader i ....
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.... grew older, many
more of these incidents would occur. "It struck me with awful force. It was the
blood stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, though which I was
about to pass."
An old slave master of Douglass was Captain Anthony. Captain Anthony was,
at times, a kind and gentle man. However, slavery made him treat slaves as
inferiors. "Under the whole heavens there could be no relation more unfavorable
to the development of honorable character than that sustained by the slave
holder to the slave."
From the beginning of a slave's childhood, masters teach the ....
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