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Frederick Douglass: “The plain, common-sense way of doing this work, as intimated at the beginning, is simply to establish in the South one…”

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The plain, common-sense way of doing this work, as intimated at the beginning, is simply to establish in the South one law, one government, one administration of justice, one condition to the exercise of the elective franchise, for men of all races and colors alike.
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Frederick Douglass

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He advocates for a unified legal and governmental system in the South that treats all races equally.

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