Chapter I
It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.Read in Books4Free →
The Whipping of Aunt Hester
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Douglass's earliest memory of slavery's brutality is witnessing his master whip his Aunt Hester, an event he calls the 'blood-stained gate' to the hell of slavery.
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