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It is easy to show that the illiteracy of the Negro has no part or lot in the disturbances there.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It is easy to show that the illiteracy of the Negro has no part or lot in the disturbances there.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass argues that the illiteracy of Black individuals is not responsible for social unrest in the South.
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