On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Can it be possible that such things as these exist in the United States?
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Can it be possible that such things as these exist in the United States?”
Editor's note · Context
Following a harrowing account of an enslaved woman's suicide to escape recapture, Douglass poses a rhetorical question about the existence of such atrocities in the United States.
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