On the record
It will cease to have any civil, political, or moral significance, and colored conventions will then be dispensed with as anachronisms, wholly out of place, but not till then.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It will cease to have any civil, political, or moral significance, and colored conventions will then be dispensed with…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that racial conventions will become obsolete when racial significance is eliminated from society.
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