Frederick Douglass: “It is due to the folly of endeavouring to put the new wine of liberty…”

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It is due to the folly of endeavouring to put the new wine of liberty in the old bottles of slavery.

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Frederick Douglass

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Here, Douglass uses a metaphor to illustrate the incompatibility of freedom and the old systems of oppression.

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Frederick Douglass: “It is due to the folly of endeavouring to put the new wine of liberty in the old bottles of slavery.”