Frederick Douglass: “While I join with all other men in pronouncing the Exposition itself…”

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While I join with all other men in pronouncing the Exposition itself one of the grandest demonstrations of civilization that the world has ever seen, yet great and glorious as it was, it was made to show just this kind of injustice and discrimination against the Negro.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

Douglass acknowledges the World’s Columbian Exposition while criticizing its failure to represent Black Americans fairly.

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Frederick Douglass: “While I join with all other men in pronouncing the Exposition itself one of the grandest demonstrations of civilization…”

Editor's note · Context