Frederick Douglass: “They have been abandoned by the Government, and left to the laws of…”

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They have been abandoned by the Government, and left to the laws of nature.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass laments the abandonment of Black citizens by the government, suggesting a failure of state responsibility.

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Frederick Douglass: “They have been abandoned by the Government, and left to the laws of nature.”