I will not stop to deny this claim, yet I fearlessly affirm that there is nothing in the history of savages to surpass the blood-chilling horrors and fiendish excesses perpetrated against the coloured people of this country, by the so-called enlightened and Christian people of the South.
Douglass contrasts the claimed civility of the nation with the brutal acts committed against African Americans, questioning moral superiority.
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