”The highly-favored inmates of this mansion were literally arrayed in “purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day.” The table of this house groaned under the blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care at home and abroad.”
From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)
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