On the record
If any man has a doubt upon it, I have here the “testimony of a thousand witnesses,” which I can give at any length, all going to prove the truth of my statement.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If any man has a doubt upon it, I have here the “testimony of a thousand witnesses,” which I can give at any length, all…”
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Douglass asserts that he has ample evidence to support his claims about slavery.
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