Frederick Douglass: “It is all nonsense to talk about the removal of eight millions of the…”

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It is all nonsense to talk about the removal of eight millions of the American people from their homes in America to Africa.

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Frederick Douglass

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He argues against the feasibility of relocating millions of African Americans to Africa.

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No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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Frederick Douglass: “It is all nonsense to talk about the removal of eight millions of the American people from their homes in America to…”