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Frederick Douglass: “I think no better exposure of slavery can be made than is made by the laws of the states in which slavery exists.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I think no better exposure of slavery can be made than is made by the laws of the states in which slavery exists.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass argues that the laws themselves reveal the true nature of slavery.

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