On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
Speech after speech, pamphlet after pamphlet, editorial after editorial, sermon after sermon, soon lashed the conscientious Scotch people into a perfect furore.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgSpeech after speech, pamphlet after pamphlet, editorial after editorial, sermon after sermon, soon lashed the conscientious Scotch people into a perfect furore.
From his autobiography, describing the intense public debate and agitation in Scotland regarding the Free Church's ties to slaveholders.
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Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
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