The physical cruelties are indeed sufficiently harassing and revolting; but they are as a few grains of sand on the sea shore, or a few drops of water in the great ocean, compared with the stupendous wrongs which it inflicts upon the mental, moral, and religious nature of its hapless victims.
Douglass argues that the profoundest injuries of slavery are not merely physical but are inflicted upon the mental, moral, and religious being of its victims.
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