I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery.
Douglass articulates his view of slaveholders as criminals who violently abducted people from their homes and subjected them to bondage.
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Taking all the circumstances into consideration, the colored people have no reason to despair.
An exceptionally poor and dependent people will be despised by the opulent and despise themselves.
The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.
The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.