Nobody authorized to speak for the Government ever corrected this deception, but on the contrary, Congress continued to legislate for the bank as if all that had been claimed for it was true.
Douglass criticizes the government's failure to correct the misconceptions about the Freedman’s bank.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.
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