Why, I believe if a man should brand his horse in this country—burn the initials of his name into any of his cattle, and publish the ferocious deed here—that the united execrations of Christians in Britain would descend upon him.
Douglass points out the hypocrisy of society's outrage over animal cruelty compared to human slavery.
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His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.
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