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Frederick Douglass: “The friends of freedom in England saw in the negro a man, a moral and responsible being.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The friends of freedom in England saw in the negro a man, a moral and responsible being.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass notes that English abolitionists recognized the inherent humanity and moral agency of Black individuals.

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