Slaveholders I hold to be individually and collectively responsible for all the evils which grow out of the horrid relation, and I believe they will be so held at the judgment, in the sight of a just God.
In his autobiography, Douglass declares slaveholders individually and collectively responsible for the evils of slavery, believing they will face divine judgment.
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