On the record
You will be surprised to learn that people at the north labor under the strange delusion that if the slaves were emancipated at the south, they would flock to the north.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “You will be surprised to learn that people at the north labor under the strange delusion that if the slaves were…”
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Douglass critiques the misconceptions held by Northerners regarding the desires of enslaved people.
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