Lloyd’s plantation and elsewhere in Maryland, was, that it was “worth but half a cent to kill a nigger, and a half a cent to bury him;” and the facts of my experience go far to justify the practical truth of this strange proverb.
Douglass reflects on the dehumanizing value placed on enslaved lives in Maryland.
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He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.