AdvertisementFrederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of ControlFebruary 10, 2017Nina MartyrisfacebookEmailAmerican writer, abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s. Douglass was acutely conscious of being a literary witness to the inhumane institution of slavery he had escaped as a young man. He made sure to document his life in not one but three autobiographies. (Getty Images)