All 8 Uses
fraud
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- He found himself incapable of managing his slaves either by force, fear, or fraud.†
Chpt 9 *
- The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.†
Chpt 10
- They are professedly a custom established by the benevolence of the slaveholders; but I undertake to say, it is the result of selfishness, and one of the grossest frauds committed upon the down-trodden slave.†
Chpt 10
- I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery.†
Chpt 10
- The other was a most artful deceiver, and could be understood only by such as were skilful enough to detect his cunningly-devised frauds.†
Chpt 10
- I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection.†
Chpt 10
- I bent myself to devising ways and means for our escape, and meanwhile strove, on all fitting occasions, to impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery.†
Chpt 10
- I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.†
Chpt Appe
Definitions:
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(1)
(fraud) the act of deceiving someone for personal gain; or a person or thing that is not what it pretends or appears to be
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)