With a book of this kind in my hand, my own human nature, and the facts of my experience, to help me, I was equal to a contest with the religious advocates of slavery, whether among the whites or among the colored people, for blindness, in this matter, is not confined to the former.
Douglass asserts that his education and personal experience equipped him to challenge the religious arguments used to defend slavery, regardless of who presented them.
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