On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
We have laid the heavy hand of the constitution upon the matchless meanness of caste, as well as the hell-black crime of slavery.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “We have laid the heavy hand of the constitution upon the matchless meanness of caste, as well as the hell-black crime of…”
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From his autobiography, Douglass asserts the Constitution's power to dismantle both the institution of slavery and the system of racial caste.
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