Frederick Douglass: “By that answer it will be seen that the force of the objection is…”

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By that answer it will be seen that the force of the objection is, after all, more in sound than in substance.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass suggests that objections to colored conventions are more about perception than reality.

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Frederick Douglass: “By that answer it will be seen that the force of the objection is, after all, more in sound than in substance.”