If there were no other fact descriptive of slavery, than that the slave is dumb, this alone would be sufficient to mark the slave system as a grand aggregation of human horrors.
Douglass argues that the voicelessness imposed on enslaved people is enough to condemn the entire system of slavery.
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Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.