To be sure, this was stealing, according to the law and gospel I heard from the pulpit; but I had begun to attach less importance to what dropped from that quarter on such points.
Douglass critiques the hypocrisy of religious teachings that condemned his actions as stealing while ignoring the injustice of his enslavement and starvation.
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