On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The morality of free society can have no application to slave society.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The morality of free society can have no application to slave society.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the moral principles governing free society are inapplicable to the inherently unjust structure of slave society.
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