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Holidays given to slaves are a fraud rooted in selfishness, not benevolence
Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
What Frederick Douglass actually said
- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery. They are professedly a custom established by the benevolence of the slaveholders; but I undertake to say, it is the result of selfishness, and one of the grossest frauds committed upon the down-trodden slave.
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↗Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)gutenberg.org
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