The very state from which the minister from our court to yours comes, is one of these states—Maryland, where men, women, and children are reared for the market, just as horses, sheep, and swine are raised for the market.
In his autobiography, Douglass exposes the dehumanizing practice of slave breeding in states like Maryland, comparing humans to livestock.
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I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.