They, at least, have renounced this unholy feeling.” Judge, then, dear reader, of my astonishment and mortification, when I found, as soon I did find, all my charitable assumptions at fault.
Douglass conveys his shock and disappointment upon discovering the hypocrisy within the church regarding racial attitudes.
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