Frederick Douglass: “They know that he has not made his ignorance the rule of his political…”

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They know that he has not made his ignorance the rule of his political conduct, but he has been guided by the rule of white men.

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Frederick Douglass

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He argues that Black political behavior has been influenced by the prevailing white political norms.

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