All will agree that a man guilty of theft, robbery, or murder, has forfeited the right to concealment and private life; that the community have a right to subject such persons to the most complete exposure.
Douglass asserts a general principle that those who commit grave wrongs forfeit their right to privacy and are subject to public exposure.
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