On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
It was one of the damning characteristics of slavery, that it robbed its victims of every earthly incentive to a holy life.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It was one of the damning characteristics of slavery, that it robbed its victims of every earthly incentive to a holy…”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass describes how slavery stripped enslaved people of moral motivation.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
Jan 1, 1881
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
Jan 1, 1881
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
Jan 1, 1881
He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.