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Context: Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Can anybody fall to make the inference what the practical result will be? If there is, as we admit, a public sentiment among you, men of honor, justice and humanity, is there not also another kind of public sentiment among the ruffian, the brutal and debased? And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world?
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Source: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 10
