Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Douglass speculates that slave babies are taken from their mothers “to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child” why would slave owners want to do this?

Douglass speculates that slave babies are taken from their mothers “to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child” why would slave owners want to do this?

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Slave owners want to kill their spirit so they simply obey. They also might hope that if they please their masters, they might see their babies again.

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