Frederick Douglass: “It was the nature of slavery from whose depths he had arisen to make…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

It was the nature of slavery from whose depths he had arisen to make him so, and it would have kept it so.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass explains that the ignorance and degradation of Black people were direct consequences of slavery, which sought to perpetuate such conditions.

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Frederick Douglass: “It was the nature of slavery from whose depths he had arisen to make him so, and it would have kept it so.”