Frederick Douglass: “They made their appeal to the pocket of the nation, and not to the…”

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They made their appeal to the pocket of the nation, and not to the heart of the nation.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass critiques the focus on economic interests over moral values in national discourse.

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