On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I doubt if there be another nation on the globe having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I doubt if there be another nation on the globe having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, this passage expresses doubt that any other nation would possess the audacity and depravity to enact a law as unjust as the Fugitive Slave Act.
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