Frederick Douglass: “Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders.

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Frederick Douglass

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From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that human nature is not predisposed to either being enslaved or enslaving others.

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Frederick Douglass: “Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders.”