Taking this charge in its broad and comprehensive sense, the sense in which it is presented and as now stated, it strikes at the whole coloured race, and, therefore, as a coloured man, I am bound to meet it.
Douglass asserts that the charge against Black men is a direct attack on the entire race, necessitating a unified response.
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