On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The old master class is to-day triumphant, and the newly enfranchised class in a condition but little above that in which they were found before the rebellion.
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Frederick Douglass
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From his autobiography, Douglass describes the grim reality where the former slaveholding class has regained power, leaving newly freed people in a state barely better than slavery.
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