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I think Frederick Douglass wrote about slaves getting the week from Christmas to New Years "off", whatever that means. I think it meant they could visit their families sold to other plantations. Apparently it was a kind of pressure valve--he said that had the vacation been taken away, there would immediately be a rebellion. Not that such a rebellion would have been successful.

Apparently most of them drank and gambled their time away
>lol classic niggers
you try being a Confederate slave and not get tempeted to escapism through vice, holy shit. Reminds me of how the nazis at Sobibor kept the jews working the gas chambers drunk

I also remember him talking about slaves being forced to get drunk for their owners' amusement

Fred always seemed like a bro to me. I like him