Frederick Douglass: “To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that the act of enslaving a person inherently strips them of their moral responsibility.

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