If it be right to hold slaves at all, it is right to hold them in the only way in which they can be held; and this can be done only by shutting out the light of education from their minds, and brutalizing their persons.
Douglass argues that if slavery is considered legitimate, then the only way to maintain it is through the suppression of education and the brutalization of enslaved individuals.
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