On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
They had settled the question that slavery was right, and by that standard they determined that Sabbath-schools were wrong.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “They had settled the question that slavery was right, and by that standard they determined that Sabbath-schools were…”
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Douglass explains how slaveholders, having accepted slavery as right, consistently concluded that slave education was wrong and acted accordingly.
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