On the record
With this power over the Negro, this possession of his labour, you may easily see why the South sometimes makes a display of its liberality and brags that it does not want slavery back.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass critiques the South's claims of progress while maintaining control over Black labor.
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