The slaveholder, were he kind or cruel, was a slaveholder still, the every-hour-violator of the just and inalienable rights of man, and he was therefore every hour silently but surely whetting the knife of vengeance for his own throat.
Douglass asserts that the nature of slaveholding itself, not the individual master's temperament, constitutes a constant violation of human rights.
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