On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The very manner of their emancipation invited to the heads of the freedmen the bitterest hostility of race and class.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The very manner of their emancipation invited to the heads of the freedmen the bitterest hostility of race and class.”
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From his autobiography, explaining why freedmen faced intense racial and class hostility immediately following emancipation.
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