The line that provides evidence that enslaved persons were treated violently is: "My master sent me away, because there existed against me a very great prejudice in the community, and he feared I might be killed." This indicates that there was a real threat of violence against enslaved individuals, reflecting the dangerous circumstances they often faced.
Which line from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass provides evidence that enslaved persons were treated violently?
Thus, after an absence of three years and one month, I was once more permitted to return to my old home at Baltimore.
The fact was, we cared but little where we went, so we went together.
Upon the whole, we got along very well, so far as the jail and its keeper were concerned.
My master sent me away, because there existed against me a very great prejudice in the community, and he feared I might be killed.
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