But, after a tour of many hundred miles among emancipated slaves, it was a noteworthy sensation to be plunged again into the midst of a system of slavery as bad as the worst form which our nation ever suffered.
This quote expresses the stark contrast experienced by the speaker after witnessing emancipation and returning to a system of slavery.
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