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Frederick Douglass: “Besides, how did people know that God made black people to be slaves?”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Besides, how did people know that God made black people to be slaves?
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context

Douglass poses a direct challenge to the purported divine origin of slavery, questioning the basis of such claims.

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