Frederick Douglass: “The peace of slavery would be disturbed; slave rule would be…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

The peace of slavery would be disturbed; slave rule would be endangered.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass explains the slaveholders' belief that educating enslaved people would disrupt the established order and threaten their control.

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