On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that human nature is not predisposed to either being enslaved or enslaving others.
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