Conscious of the injustice and wrong they are every hour perpetrating, and knowing what they themselves would do if made the victims of such wrongs, they are looking out for the first signs of the dread retribution of justice.
In his autobiography, Douglass describes the inherent fear and paranoia of slaveholders, who anticipate retribution due to their own awareness of the injustices they inflict.
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