Frederick Douglass: “Will not a righteous God visit for these things?”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1845

Will not a righteous God visit for these things?

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass poses a rhetorical question, appealing to divine justice to condemn the atrocities committed under slavery.

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