Whips, chains, gags, and thumb-screws have all lain under the droppings of the sanctuary, and instead of rusting from off the limbs of the bondman, those droppings have served to preserve them in all their strength.
Douglass uses a vivid metaphor to illustrate how the church, instead of opposing slavery, has strengthened its instruments of oppression.
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