Frederick Douglass: “God created both, and made us separate beings.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

God created both, and made us separate beings.

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Frederick Douglass

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Continuing his argument for self-ownership, Douglass asserts that God created individuals as separate and distinct beings.

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