I have held up their example of virtuous self-sacrifice to the admiration and imitation of all who would serve the human family in its march from barbarism to a higher state of civilization.
Douglass honors the early abolitionists, urging others to emulate their selflessness in the fight for justice.
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I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.