On the record
No slaveholding American shall ever my cross my door.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “No slaveholding American shall ever my cross my door.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass expresses his strong rejection of slaveholders and their influence in his life.
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