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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER XXV
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It comes home to every man's understanding, and appeals directly to every man's conscience.

A man that does not recognize and approve for himself the rights and privileges contended for, in behalf of the American slave, has not yet been found.

In whatever else men may differ, they are alike in the apprehension of their natural and personal rights.

The difference between abolitionists and those by whom they are opposed, is not as to principles.

All are agreed in respect to these.
The manner of applying them is the point of difference.
The slaveholder himself, the daily robber of his equal brother, discourses eloquently as to the excellency of justice, and the man who employs a brutal driver to flay the flesh of his negroes, is not offended when kindness and humanity are commended.


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