Frederick Douglass: “The slaveholders want total darkness on the subject.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

The slaveholders want total darkness on the subject.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that slaveholders actively seek to suppress any public discussion or revelation about the realities of slavery.

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