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…showed last 75 words of 849 total…make a decision. Instead, he shows the excessive irony of being a slave in the white South. Being able to see this for its true worth was the start of a long road to abolition. Many of the slaveholders felt slavery was their duty and that God approved. Who would have thought that such a large population could be in denial and totally oblivious to the cold hard truth lying directly in front of them?