If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and to fill me with unutterable loathing of slaveholders, it was their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother.
Douglass identifies the cruel abandonment of his grandmother as the most profound illustration of slavery's inherent evil and the depravity of slaveholders.
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