Let the reader reflect upon the fact, that, in this christian country, men and women are hiding from professors of religion, in barns, in the woods and fields, in order to learn to read the holy bible.
From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the irony of enslaved people being forced to hide to learn to read the Bible in a Christian country.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.