Feeling themselves somehow or other entitled to our labor without the payment of wages, it was not strange that they should make the hardest bargains for our labor, and get it for as little as possible.
Douglass critiques the exploitative labor practices that persisted after emancipation.
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His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.