On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
He does not make very great progress in civilization himself but he likes to be in the midst of it, and prefers to share its most galling evils, to encountering barbarism.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “He does not make very great progress in civilization himself but he likes to be in the midst of it, and prefers to share…”
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Douglass elaborates on the Black man's preference for civilization, even when facing its hardships, over the alternative of barbarism.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.