Frederick Douglass: “Exceptions there may be, but this is true of religious slaveholders…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Exceptions there may be, but this is true of religious slaveholders, as a class.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass qualifies his strong condemnation of religious slaveholders, emphasizing that his observation applies to them as a group.

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Frederick Douglass: “Exceptions there may be, but this is true of religious slaveholders, as a class.”