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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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  He was a slaveholder without the ability to hold slaves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
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  It was my unhappy lot not only to belong to a religious slaveholder, but to live in a community of such religionists.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
9  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
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  But, by this time, I began to want to live upon free land as well as with Freeland; and I was no longer content, therefore, to live with him or any other slaveholder.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
12  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
13  Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation, artfully labelled with the name of liberty.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
14  From what I know of the effect of these holidays upon the slave, I believe them to be among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholder in keeping down the spirit of insurrection.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
15  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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
16  We thought him instrumental in getting Mr. Samuel Harrison, a very rich slaveholder, to emancipate his slaves; and by some means got the impression that he was laboring to effect the emancipation of all the slaves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
17  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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
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