Frederick Douglass: “It cannot be solved by keeping the Negro poor, degraded, ignorant and…”

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It cannot be solved by keeping the Negro poor, degraded, ignorant and half-starved, as I have shown is now being done in Southern States.

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Frederick Douglass

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Here, Douglass argues that true solutions to societal issues cannot be achieved through the oppression and degradation of African Americans.

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