To talk of kindness entering into a relation in which one party is robbed of wife, of children, of his hard earnings, of home, of friends, of society, of knowledge, and of all that makes this life desirable, is most absurd, wicked, and preposterous.
Douglass, in his autobiography, refutes the notion that kindness can exist within the inherently cruel and dehumanizing institution of slavery.
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