Men and women, young and old, married and single; moral and intellectual beings, in open contempt of their humanity, level at a blow with horses, sheep, horned cattle and swine!
Douglass vividly describes the dehumanizing process of slaves being appraised and valued as mere livestock, stripping them of their inherent human dignity.
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