Frederick Douglass: “It leads him to doubt the possibility of his progress as an American…”

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It leads him to doubt the possibility of his progress as an American citizen.

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Frederick Douglass

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He argues that such colonization ideas lead African Americans to doubt their potential as citizens.

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