Frederick Douglass: “This then, is the high vantage ground of the negro; he has labor; the…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

This then, is the high vantage ground of the negro; he has labor; the South wants it, and must have it or perish.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

From his autobiography, Douglass identifies the economic power of Black labor as the freedman's greatest asset.

Frederick Douglass: “This then, is the high vantage ground of the negro; he has labor; the South wants it, and must have it or perish.”