On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
From the first, I, for one, saw in this war the end of slavery; and truth requires me to say that my interest in the success of the North was largely due to this belief.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “From the first, I, for one, saw in this war the end of slavery; and truth requires me to say that my interest in the…”
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Douglass declares his early conviction that the Civil War would lead to the abolition of slavery, which fueled his support for the Union.
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