Like any other embodiment of social and material interest peculiar to a given community, slavery generated its own sentiments, its own morals, manners, and religion; and begot a character in all around it in favor of its own existence.
Douglass discusses how slavery shaped the morals and character of society, creating a distinct culture around it.
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Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.