As if whips, chains, thumb-screws, paddles, blood-hounds, overseers, drivers, patrols, were not all indispensable to keep the slaves down, and to give protection to their ruthless oppressors!
Douglass powerfully critiques the brutal measures used to maintain slavery in America.
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We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.