The world needed just such a revelation of the power of conscience and of human brotherhood, one that overleaped the accident of color and of race, and set at naught the whisperings of prejudice.
Douglass argues that West India Emancipation served as a crucial demonstration of conscience and human brotherhood, transcending racial prejudice.
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