On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
No word was said when free men from Massachusetts were caught and sold into slavery in Texas.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “No word was said when free men from Massachusetts were caught and sold into slavery in Texas.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass criticizes the government's silence regarding the enslavement of free Black men during the Civil War.
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