On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
There is no denying, for it is everywhere admitted, that the anti-slavery question is the great moral and social question now before the American people.
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Frederick Douglass
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From his autobiography, Douglass asserts the paramount importance of the anti-slavery question as a moral and social issue for the American nation.
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