Slaveholders I held to be individually and collectively responsible for all the evils which grew out of the horrid relation, and I believed they would be so held in the sight of God.
Douglass declares that slaveholders bear individual and collective responsibility for all the atrocities arising from the institution of slavery, a judgment he believes God will uphold.
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