The demand for the ballot was such a vast advance upon the former objects proclaimed by the friends of the colored race, that it startled and struck men as preposterous and wholly inadmissible.
Douglass describes the initial shock and resistance encountered when the demand for Black suffrage was first introduced to the public discourse.
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