Frederick Douglass: “I had been taught that slavery was the bottom-fact of all wealth.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

I had been taught that slavery was the bottom-fact of all wealth.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass explains the deeply ingrained false belief he held about the economic foundation of society while enslaved.

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