Frederick Douglass: “The white slave had taken from him by indirection what the black slave…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

The white slave had taken from him by indirection what the black slave had taken from him directly and without ceremony.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass explains the differing methods of exploitation faced by poor white laborers and enslaved black people under the slave system.

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Frederick Douglass: “The white slave had taken from him by indirection what the black slave had taken from him directly and without ceremony.”