A slaveholding community has a peculiar taste for ferreting out offenses against the slave system, justice there being more sensitive in its regard for the peculiar rights of this system, than for any other interest or institution.
From his autobiography, Douglass critiques how justice in slaveholding communities prioritizes the maintenance of slavery above all other concerns.
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I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
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