Frederick Douglass And Slavery
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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 is able to perceive a
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.... a "horrible exhibition." He lived with his
Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane slave holder.
He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave. Douglass was often
times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be tied and whipped on her
back. The master would whip her till he was literally covered in blood. "No
words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart
from its bloody purpose." The louder she screamed, the hard ....
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