The whole scene, with all its attendants, was revolting and shocking, to the last degree; and when the motives of this brutal castigation are considered,—language has no power to convey a just sense of its awful criminality.
Reflecting on the brutal whipping of his aunt, Douglass describes the profound moral outrage and the inadequacy of language to capture the crime of slavery.
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But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.