Whether on the coast of Africa, among the savage tribes, or in South Carolina, among the refined and civilized, slavery is the same, and its accompaniments one and the same.
In his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the fundamental nature of slavery and its cruelties remain constant regardless of location or societal development.
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