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Frederick Douglass: But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented.

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But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Here, Douglass indicates that there are even more shocking aspects of slavery that need to be addressed.

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