On the record
The only excuse they can make for the measure is that there is no hope for the Negro here, and that the coloured people in America owe something to Africa.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The only excuse they can make for the measure is that there is no hope for the Negro here, and that the coloured people…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that the only justification for colonization is a belief in hopelessness for African Americans in the U.S.
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