Frederick Douglass: “But the thing which more than all else destroyed the fugitive slave…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

But the thing which more than all else destroyed the fugitive slave law was the resistance made to it by the fugitives themselves.

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Frederick Douglass

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In his autobiography, Douglass identifies the primary force that undermined the Fugitive Slave Law.

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