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Frederick Douglass: They know, or they ought to know that it would take more money than the cost of the late war, to transport even one half…

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They know, or they ought to know that it would take more money than the cost of the late war, to transport even one half of the coloured people of the United States to Africa.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass emphasizes the impracticality of transporting African Americans to Africa.

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