Frederick Douglass: “Now I hold that the American Negro owes no more to the Negroes in…”

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Now I hold that the American Negro owes no more to the Negroes in Africa than he owes to the Negroes in America.

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Frederick Douglass

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He asserts that African Americans have obligations to their fellow citizens in America rather than to those in Africa.

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Frederick Douglass: “Now I hold that the American Negro owes no more to the Negroes in Africa than he owes to the Negroes in America.”