Of all the dejected, emaciated, mangled and excoriated creatures I ever saw, those two girls—in the refined, church going and Christian city of Baltimore were the most deplorable.
Douglass expresses his profound shock at the deplorable condition of two enslaved girls in Baltimore, highlighting the hypocrisy of the supposedly Christian city.
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