The slave is robbed, by his master, of all his earnings, above what is required for his bare physical necessities; and the white man is robbed by the slave system, of the just results of his labor, because he is flung into competition with a class of laborers who work without wages.
In his autobiography, Douglass details the economic mechanisms by which both enslaved Black people and free white laborers are exploited.
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Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.