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1  Captain Auld was not born a slaveholder.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  He was not considered a rich slaveholder.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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4  He was a slaveholder without the ability to hold slaves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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6  The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  He received all the benefits of slaveholding without its evils; while I endured all the evils of a slave, and suffered all the care and anxiety of a freeman.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  It would astonish one, unaccustomed to a slaveholding life, to see with what wonderful ease a slaveholder can find things, of which to make occasion to whip a slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
11  Every city slaveholder is anxious to have it known of him, that he feeds his slaves well; and it is due to them to say, that most of them do give their slaves enough to eat.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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15  In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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16  It is said to have been drawn, several years before the present anti-slavery agitation began, by a northern Methodist preacher, who, while residing at the south, had an opportunity to see slaveholding morals, manners, and piety, with his own eyes.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
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17  From the wharves I strolled around and over the town, gazing with wonder and admiration at the splendid churches, beautiful dwellings, and finely-cultivated gardens; evincing an amount of wealth, comfort, taste, and refinement, such as I had never seen in any part of slaveholding Maryland.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
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