The whip, the chain, the gag, the thumb-screw, the blood-hound, the stocks, and all the other bloody paraphernalia of the slave system, are indispensably necessary to the relation of master and slave.
Douglass lists the instruments of torture and control, declaring them indispensable for maintaining the master-slave relationship.
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