Frederick Douglass: “The fact that all other nations were there at their best, made the…”

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The fact that all other nations were there at their best, made the Negro’s exclusion the more pronounced and the more significant.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass emphasizes the significance of the Negro's exclusion in the context of the Exposition.

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