Chapter VI
To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.Read in Books4Free →
Ignorance as the Tool of Slavery
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Douglass argues that slaveholders maintained power through enforced ignorance, and that knowledge was inherently emancipatory.
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