On the record
Slavery, like all other great systems of wrong, founded in the depths of human selfishness, and existing for ages, has not neglected its own conservation.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Slavery, like all other great systems of wrong, founded in the depths of human selfishness, and existing for ages, has…”
Editor's note · Context
He describes slavery as a deeply entrenched system rooted in human selfishness that perpetuates itself.
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