Let me say again, slavery is alike the sin and the shame of the American people; it is a blot upon the American name, and the only national reproach which need make an American hang his head in shame, in the presence of monarchical governments.
From his autobiography, Douglass condemns slavery as the ultimate moral failing and national disgrace for the United States.
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