Both Uses of
laceration
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.†
Chpt 6 *lacerated = cut
- Master would keep this lacerated young woman tied up in this horrid situation four or five hours at a time.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
a cut -- especially of the skin -- and often implying that the cut was not clean, but instead left jagged edges