By this statement " Not to give a slave eough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness, even among slaveholders," the abolotionist Frederick Douglas meant that even slaveowners there were different kinds and the worse kind would only do somethig as awful as not to feed the slaves.
Explanation:
Slaves endured much mistreatment,however there is as much as it can be tolerated.
This was a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson used to defend freedom and liberty. I think he's basically saying that what's the point of doing things if we aren't granted our freedom in return.