Frederick Douglass: “This then, is the high vantage ground of the negro; he has labor; the…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

This then, is the high vantage ground of the negro; he has labor; the South wants it, and must have it or perish.

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Frederick Douglass

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From his autobiography, Douglass identifies the economic power of Black labor as the freedman's greatest asset.

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