Frederick Douglass: “Time, education, and training will restore him to natural proportions…”

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Time, education, and training will restore him to natural proportions, for, though bruised and blasted, he is yet a man.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass expresses hope for the restoration of African Americans through education and training after emancipation.

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Frederick Douglass: “Time, education, and training will restore him to natural proportions, for, though bruised and blasted, he is yet a man.”