Frederick Douglass: “History does not furnish an example of emancipation under conditions…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

History does not furnish an example of emancipation under conditions less friendly to the emancipated class, than this American example.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

From his autobiography, asserting the unparalleled harshness of the conditions under which American slaves were emancipated.

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