The defendants, according to prosecutors, held the four victims in subhuman conditions in a scheme to steal Social Security disability payments.

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And when Douglass - in Douglas' day, most whites believed in theory that blacks were subhuman, yet they'd experienced Douglas' magic, his artistry, and they'd essentially shed their racism to the degree that they'd be converted to his cause of abolitionism or anti-slavery, and there are countless examples of that happening.

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