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Appendix
Reception Speech
At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, 1846
Delivered soon after landing in Britain, Douglass defines American slavery precisely as chattel property in a human being, catalogs its legal cruelties, and indicts the southern church for sanctifying it — followed by Dr. Campbell's admiring reply.
Definition of slavery as property in a personState slave codes and branding laws quoted verbatimThe complicity of southern religionDr. Campbell's reply praising Douglass