On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
He may be white, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood; and his child may be ranked with the blackest slaves.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “He may be white, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood; and his child may be ranked with the blackest slaves.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass exposes the hypocrisy of racial purity claims by noting that a white man, proud of his heritage, could father a child classified as a black slave.
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