Frederick Douglass: “Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the enslaved people…”

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Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the enslaved people are also on trial.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass points out that both slavery and enslaved people are being judged in the public sphere.

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Frederick Douglass: “Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the enslaved people are also on trial.”