It did produce a sensation; but, incredible to tell, the moral sense of the community was blunted too entirely by the ordinary nature of slavery horrors, to bring the murderess to punishment.
Douglass reflects on how the pervasive horrors of slavery desensitized the community, preventing justice for a murdered slave girl.
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