Frederick Douglass: “To him such a community was not more sacred than a band of robbers: it…”

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To him such a community was not more sacred than a band of robbers: it was the right of any one to assault it by day or night.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass argues that John Brown viewed slave-holding communities as morally equivalent to criminal gangs.

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Frederick Douglass: “To him such a community was not more sacred than a band of robbers: it was the right of any one to assault it by day or…”