Slavery's Corrupting Effect on Slaveholders

From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Douglass shows that slavery degrades the slaveholder as well as the slave, illustrated through Sophia Auld's transformation from a kind woman into a cruel mistress.
Chapter VII
Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me... that cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord.
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