While America is printing tracts and bibles; sending missionaries abroad to convert the heathen; expending her money in various ways for the promotion of the gospel in foreign lands—the slave not only lies forgotten, uncared for, but is trampled under foot by the very churches of the land.
Douglass exposes the hypocrisy of American churches promoting Christianity abroad while neglecting and oppressing enslaved people at home.
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