It was a dark, gloomy and forbidding place, and it was difficult to feel that the spirits of the sleeping dust there deposited, reigned with the blest in the realms of eternal peace.
Describing the somber atmosphere of the Lloyd family burying ground, Douglass expresses doubt about the peaceful repose of those interred there.
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