On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
This is American slavery; no marriage—no education—the light of the gospel shut out from the dark mind of the bondman—and he forbidden by law to learn to read.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass succinctly defines American slavery by listing the fundamental rights and opportunities it systematically denied to enslaved people.
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