On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
We see here the black man attacked in his vital interests; prejudice and hate are excited against him; enmity is stirred up between him and other laborers.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “We see here the black man attacked in his vital interests; prejudice and hate are excited against him; enmity is stirred…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes how Black people are systematically attacked in their interests, facing prejudice, hate, and engineered animosity from other labor groups.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.
Jan 1, 1881
The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…
Jan 1, 1881
None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.