Frederick Douglass: “None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

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Frederick Douglass

Source

In his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the intellectual capacity of the Black race to learn through written communication is no longer disputed.

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