On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Besides, I could not tell how anybody could know that God made black people to be slaves.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Besides, I could not tell how anybody could know that God made black people to be slaves.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on his childhood questioning of the supposed divine right of slaveholders.
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