On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
This was less satisfactory than the first statement; because it came, point blank, against all my notions of goodness.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “This was less satisfactory than the first statement; because it came, point blank, against all my notions of goodness.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes his early intellectual and moral rejection of the religious justifications for slavery, finding them contradictory to his innate sense of goodness.
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