We all felt that we might as well be sold at once to the Georgia traders, as to pass into his hands; for we knew that that would be our inevitable condition,—a condition held by us all in the utmost horror and dread.
Douglass articulates the horror of being sold into slavery, comparing it to a fate worse than death.
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