Slaveholders,” thought I, “are only a band of successful robbers, who left their homes and went into Africa for the purpose of stealing and reducing my people to slavery.” I loathed them as the meanest and the most wicked of men.
Douglass articulates his profound realization that slaveholders are essentially criminals who stole people from Africa.
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The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.