On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The key to the situation was the four million of slaves; yet the slave who loved us, was hated, and the slaveholder who hated us, was loved.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “The key to the situation was the four million of slaves; yet the slave who loved us, was hated, and the slaveholder who…”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, reflecting on the paradoxical and self-defeating nature of the Union's early Civil War policy towards enslaved people and slaveholders.
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