She lost a glorious opportunity for giving her voice, her vote, and her example to the cause of humanity; and to-day she is staggering under the curse of the enslaved, whose blood is in her skirts.
Douglass laments the Free Church of Scotland's failure to support the anti-slavery cause, asserting they now bear the moral burden of the enslaved.
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