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I had, through some medium, I know not what, got some idea of God, the Creator of all mankind, the black and the white, and that he had made the blacks to serve the whites as slaves.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I had, through some medium, I know not what, got some idea of God, the Creator of all mankind, the black and the white…”
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In this quote, Douglass reflects on the troubling belief that God created people to be enslaved, revealing his struggle with faith.
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