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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