The slave auctioneer’s bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master.
In his autobiography, Douglass vividly illustrates the disturbing harmony between the institutions of slavery and American Christianity.
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The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.
A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.