Frederick Douglass: “Thus viewed it was the one act which broke the gloomy spell that bound…”

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Thus viewed it was the one act which broke the gloomy spell that bound the nation in the bonds of servile, unnatural reverence and awe for slavery.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass reflects on how emancipation broke the nation's reverence for slavery.

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