Frederick Douglass: “Not even our churches, whose members profess to follow the despised…”

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Not even our churches, whose members profess to follow the despised Nazarene, whose home, when on earth, was among the lowly and despised, have yet conquered this feeling of color madness, and what is true of our churches is also true of our courts of law.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

Here, Douglass critiques the failure of religious institutions to overcome racial prejudice.

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Frederick Douglass: “Not even our churches, whose members profess to follow the despised Nazarene, whose home, when on earth, was among the…”

Editor's note · Context