A contest had been going on in my mind for years, between the clear consciousness of right and the plausible errors of superstition; between the wisdom of manly courage, and the foolish weakness of timidity.
Douglass describes in his autobiography the prolonged internal conflict between moral conviction and the psychological effects of oppression.
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It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
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