Frederick Douglass: “Let the white people of the North and South conquer their prejudices.”

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Let the white people of the North and South conquer their prejudices.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass calls for a collective effort to overcome racial prejudices in order to achieve true unity and progress.

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