On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The slaveholders blinded them to this competition by keeping alive their prejudice against the slaves as men--not against them as slaves.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass explains how slaveholders used racial prejudice to prevent poor white laborers from recognizing their shared economic exploitation with enslaved people.
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