Frederick Douglass: “But you will ask me, can these things be possible in a land professing…”

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But you will ask me, can these things be possible in a land professing Christianity?

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass questions the compatibility of such atrocities with a nation that professes to be Christian.

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Frederick Douglass: “But you will ask me, can these things be possible in a land professing Christianity?”