Frederick Douglass: “Better still, they want the United States Government to vote the money…”

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Better still, they want the United States Government to vote the money to send them there.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass highlights the absurdity of asking the U.S. government to fund colonization efforts.

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Frederick Douglass: “Better still, they want the United States Government to vote the money to send them there.”