Frederick Douglass: “Its first aim is to destroy all sense of high moral and religious…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Its first aim is to destroy all sense of high moral and religious responsibility.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass identifies slavery's initial goal as the eradication of its victims' moral and religious accountability.

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