On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Now, since poverty has, and can have no chance against wealth, the landless against the land owner, the ignorant against the intelligent, the freedman was powerless.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass explains the inherent power imbalance that left newly emancipated people vulnerable in the post-slavery South.
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