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- I have said my master found religious sanction for his cruelty.Chapter 9 (66% in)
- Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.Chapter 9 (49% in)
There are no more uses of "sanction" in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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