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The amendments to that instrument, adopted in the trying times of reconstruction of the Southern States, are a credit to the courage and statesmanship of the leading men of that crisis.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass acknowledges the significance of the amendments made during the Reconstruction era.
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