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Frederick Douglass: I do not know of one single noble act ever performed by him.

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I do not know of one single noble act ever performed by him.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass expresses his disdain for a specific slaveholder, emphasizing the absence of noble actions.

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