Frederick Douglass: “Law, religion, learning, were interposed in its behalf in vain.”

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Law, religion, learning, were interposed in its behalf in vain.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass argues that legal and religious arguments in favor of slavery are ultimately ineffective and hollow.

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