Frederick Douglass: “The competition, and its injurious consequences, will, one day, array…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

The competition, and its injurious consequences, will, one day, array the nonslaveholding white people of the slave states, against the slave system, and make them the most effective workers against the great evil.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

From his autobiography, Douglass predicts that economic competition will eventually turn non-slaveholding white people against the institution of slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “The competition, and its injurious consequences, will, one day, array the nonslaveholding white people of the slave…”

Editor's note · Context