Hearing such charges often repeated, I, naturally enough, received the impression that abolition—whatever else it might be—could not be unfriendly to the slave, nor very friendly to the slaveholder.
Douglass recounts how the common accusations against abolitionists led him to realize their cause must be beneficial to slaves.
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