On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Then I found, too, that there were puzzling exceptions to this theory of slavery, in the fact that all black people were not slaves, and all white people were not masters.
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Frederick Douglass
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From his autobiography, Douglass describes his early observations that contradicted the prevailing racial justifications for slavery.
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