Frederick Douglass: “Colored men who adhere to the Republican party are vilified as slaves…”

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Colored men who adhere to the Republican party are vilified as slaves, office-seekers, serviles, “knuckle-close” Republicans, as tools of white men, traitors to their race, and much more of the same sort.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

Douglass critiques the negative perceptions of Black Republicans in the political landscape of his time.

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Frederick Douglass: “Colored men who adhere to the Republican party are vilified as slaves, office-seekers, serviles, “knuckle-close”…”

Editor's note · Context