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Appendix
The Nature of Slavery
Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, December 1, 1850
Douglass defines the legal relation of master and slave, argues that slavery's deepest harm is to the slave's moral and intellectual nature rather than merely his body, and contrasts the condition of the American slave with that of the poor in Ireland.
The legal definition of the master-slave relationSlavery's assault on conscience and intellect, not just the bodyMaryland's laws against teaching slaves to readComparison with Irish poverty