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An abolitionist memoir and treatise recounting the laborious and cruel subjections endured on Black people during slavery with august oration by Frederick Douglass, a freed slave himself, in 1845.

Douglass’s searing comments on slave-ownership particularly by religious slave owners in the South were appropriate criticisms and articulations that advanced abolitionist movements of the time.
(His opinion on the Underground Railroad was surprising to me though.)

To make connections to the current racial-capitalist climates acutely affecting and disenfranchising Black people in America, this seminal piece ought to be read.