On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
It was the nature of slavery from whose depths he had arisen to make him so, and it would have kept it so.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It was the nature of slavery from whose depths he had arisen to make him so, and it would have kept it so.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass explains that the ignorance and degradation of Black people were direct consequences of slavery, which sought to perpetuate such conditions.
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