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Frederick Douglass: “Than this, there was never a surrender more dishonorable, more ungrateful, or more cowardly.”

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Than this, there was never a surrender more dishonorable, more ungrateful, or more cowardly.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass condemns the act of surrendering rights as dishonorable and cowardly.

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