We might, for instance, proceed to inquire not only into the philosophy of the anti-slavery movement, but into the philosophy of the law, in obedience to which that movement started into existence.
Douglass suggests exploring the philosophical underpinnings of the anti-slavery movement and the law.
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The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
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.
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