So long as they could keep him beyond the circle of human brotherhood, they could scourge him to toil, as a beast of burden, with a good Christian conscience, and without reproach.
From his autobiography, explaining how slaveholders justified their cruelty by denying the humanity and brotherhood of enslaved people.
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