He had written his character on the living parchment of most of their backs, and left them seamed and callous; my back (thanks to my early removal to Baltimore) was yet tender.
In his autobiography, Douglass uses a vivid metaphor to describe the physical scars of slavery on others, contrasting it with his own experience.
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