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It is for this purpose, it seems to me, that this new charge, unthought of and unknown in the times to which I have referred, has been largely invented and thundered against us.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It is for this purpose, it seems to me, that this new charge, unthought of and unknown in the times to which I have…”
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Douglass believes that the new charges against African Americans have been strategically created to justify oppression.
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