Another mode of impeaching the wisdom of emancipation, and the one which seems to give special pleasure to our enemies, is, as they say, that the condition of the coloured people of the South has been made worse by emancipation.
Douglass critiques the narrative that emancipation worsened the condition of Black people, highlighting the ongoing struggle against misinformation.
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