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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