In its name, we have been called upon to deepen our infamy before the world, to rivet the fetter more firmly on the limbs of the enslaved, and to become utterly insensible to the voice of human woe that is wafted to us on every southern gale.
From his autobiography, Douglass describes how false patriotism is invoked to justify the intensification of slavery and ignore the suffering of the enslaved.
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