Some of the Southern papers have denounced me for my unbelief in this charge and in this new crusade against the Negro, but I repeat I do not believe it, and firmly deny the grounds upon which it is based.
Douglass defends his disbelief in the accusations against African Americans, asserting their falsehood.
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