On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The first step, in the wrong direction, was the violence done to nature and to conscience, in arresting the benevolence that would have enlightened my young mind.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The first step, in the wrong direction, was the violence done to nature and to conscience, in arresting the benevolence…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass identifies the initial moral compromise in his mistress's treatment of him as the suppression of natural benevolence and conscience.
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