Hamilton is as justly chargeable to the upholders of the slave system, as drunkenness is chargeable on those who, by precept and example, or by indifference, uphold the drinking system.
From his autobiography, Douglass argues that the cruelty of individual slaveholders is a direct consequence of the slave system itself.
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Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.