On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
His great mission was to accomplish two things: first, to save his country from dismemberment and ruin; and second, to free his country from the great crime of slavery.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “His great mission was to accomplish two things: first, to save his country from dismemberment and ruin; and second, to…”
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Douglass defines Abraham Lincoln's paramount historical mission as preserving the Union and eradicating the institution of slavery.
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