This is not a bad summary of the palpable injustice and fraud of slavery, giving—as it does—to the lazy and idle, the comforts which God designed should be given solely to the honest laborer.
Douglass critiques the systemic injustice of slavery, emphasizing how it rewards the lazy at the expense of honest laborers.
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A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.
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