I want him to feel that he has no sympathy in England, Scotland, or Ireland; that he has none in Canada, none in Mexico, none among the poor wild Indians; that the voice of the civilized, aye, and savage world is against him.
Douglass articulates his wish for slaveholders to feel the universal condemnation of their practice from across the globe.
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