On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
They have grown intimate with vice and blood; they gloat over the wildest illustrations of their soul-damning and earth-polluting business, and are moral pests.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “They have grown intimate with vice and blood; they gloat over the wildest illustrations of their soul-damning and…”
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From his autobiography, Douglass condemns the moral depravity and destructive nature of slave buyers.
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