The policy of the old master-class dictated by passion, pride, and revenge, was then to make the freedom of the negro, a greater calamity to him, if possible, than had been his slavery.
Douglass exposes the vindictive post-emancipation strategy of the former slaveholding class to undermine the freedom of Black people.
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