Slaves, too, readily distinguish between the birthright bearing of the original slaveholder and the assumed attitudes of the accidental slaveholder; and while they cannot respect either, they certainly despise the latter more than the former.
In his autobiography, Douglass explains how enslaved people perceived the difference between inherited and accidental slaveholders.
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