... to him as it did his slave-mistress in that it destroyed her sense of morality and corrupted her soul. Both Douglass and Jacobs examine the fact that plantation life sheltered slaves from knowing the truth about how degrading and immoral an institution slavery was and therefore allowed for ignorance to breed among slaves. Douglass recalled how slaves from different plantations ... would fight over whose master was richer or smarter thinking that the "greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves (Douglass 354)." ). Jacobs also calls attention to the state of ignorance ... h...

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