Frederick Douglass: “It was the turning-point in the conflict between freedom and slavery.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

It was the turning-point in the conflict between freedom and slavery.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that the Emancipation Proclamation marked a decisive shift in the struggle between the forces of freedom and slavery.

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