On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest…”
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In his autobiography, Douglass describes the cruel irony of slave law where a white father's child could be enslaved.
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