Frederick Douglass: “No doubt it would have “patched up” a peace, but it would have been a…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

No doubt it would have “patched up” a peace, but it would have been a peace more to be dreaded than war.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass critiques the idea of a superficial peace that would fail to address the fundamental issues of the Civil War.

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Frederick Douglass: “No doubt it would have “patched up” a peace, but it would have been a peace more to be dreaded than war.”