Frederick Douglass: “They need, and ought to have, the material aid of both white and…”

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They need, and ought to have, the material aid of both white and colored people of the free states.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass argues for the necessity of support from both white and colored citizens to uplift the African American community.

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