Frederick Douglass: “Did they go up in the sky and learn it? or, did He come down and tell…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Did they go up in the sky and learn it? or, did He come down and tell them so?

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass uses rhetorical questions to highlight the absurdity and lack of verifiable evidence for the religious justifications of slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “Did they go up in the sky and learn it? or, did He come down and tell them so?”