Besides, the worst enemy of the nation could not cast upon its fair name a greater infamy than to admit that negroes could be tolerated among them in a state of the most degrading slavery and oppression, and must be cast away, driven into exile, for no other cause than having been freed from their chains.
From his autobiography, Douglass argues against the idea of exiling freed slaves, stating it would be a greater infamy than slavery itself.
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