On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one-sixth of the population of democratic America is denied its privileges by the law of the land.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass exposes the hypocrisy of a democratic nation that legally denied the institution of marriage to a significant portion of its population.
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