Frederick Douglass: “Must I argue that a system, thus marked with blood and stained with…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Must I argue that a system, thus marked with blood and stained with pollution, is wrong?

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Frederick Douglass

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In his scathing address, Douglass rhetorically questions the necessity of arguing against a system so clearly evil.

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