Like any other embodiment of social and material interest peculiar to a given community, slavery generated its own sentiments, its own morals, manners, and religion; and begot a character in all around it in favor of its own existence.
Douglass discusses how slavery shaped the morals and character of society, creating a distinct culture around it.
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It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.