Frederick Douglass: “I could entertain no such nonsense as this; and I almost lost my…”

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I could entertain no such nonsense as this; and I almost lost my patience when I found any colored man weak enough to believe such stuff.

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Frederick Douglass

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He expresses frustration at those who accept the notion that they should passively endure slavery.

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