...Then he determined to go back and see the boy in whom all his hopes and ambitions were centered, who was the unconscious cause of his villainy and degradation...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...But the degradation is not the less, but the greater, for our unconsciousness of it...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...He will find that in assuming our avocation he also has assumed our degradation...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...It is not mere senseless degradation...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
... But the degradation and harsh treatment Isabella experienced in her new home was nothing compared to the grief she underwent at being separated from her dear child...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
...The most moral andreligious men in Massachusetts have their religion and moralitymodified by the degradation of the man in the South whose religion isa mere matter of form or of emotionalism...
Booker T. Washington 「The Future of the American Negro」
... He sent her back to shame and degradation,—to herduties to husband and home...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
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