On the other hand, it has nothing to oppose it but a vulgar, popular prejudice against the coloured people of our country, a prejudice which we all know strikes men with moral blindness and renders them incapable of seeing any distinction between right and wrong where coloured people are concerned.
He critiques the societal prejudice that clouds moral judgment regarding Black individuals.
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This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.