In 1845, as Frederick Douglass remembered his time enslaved, he wrote that his “tendency was upward.” Douglass observed that, “A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantat...

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美国南部的奴隶制和阶级：一代奴隶叙事证词，1840-1865

1845 年，当弗雷德里克·道格拉斯 (Frederick Douglass) 回忆起他被奴役的时光时，他写道，他的“倾向是向上的”。道格拉斯观察到，“与种植园上的奴隶相比，城市奴隶几乎是自由人……