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Slavery and Frederick Douglass In the early nineteenth century a black man could be whipped for no reason, he could be beaten, stripped or tortured for the entertainment of his master. A black woman could be sexually harassed, assaulted, beaten or raped at anytime without question. The institution of slavery was the most disgraceful and inhuman institution in the history of the United States. Slavery had existed long before it had made its way to …

…slavery. He loathed all slaveholders, especially those who justified their cruelty though religion as on of his masters had, and sought to expose the nation to how bad slavery was in the south. The feeling that Douglass describes as " white people weighing me down" was enough for him to take up the fight against slavery and to devote the rest of his days to abolition, and to dismantle the most inhuman institution in American history.