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Now, men who openly defraud the Negro of his vote by all manner of artifice, who justify it and boast of it in the face of the world’s civilization, as was done by Prof.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Now, men who openly defraud the Negro of his vote by all manner of artifice, who justify it and boast of it in the face…”
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Douglass criticizes those who justify defrauding Black voters as a means to maintain racial supremacy.
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