Frederick Douglass: “God has given him an intellect; the slaveholder declares it shall not…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

God has given him an intellect; the slaveholder declares it shall not be cultivated.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass highlights the inherent contradiction between the natural human capacity for intellect and the slaveholder's deliberate suppression of it.

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