A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely rel… - Frederick Douglass

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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass (c. February 1818 – 20 February 1895) was an American abolitionist, orator, author, editor, reformer, women's rights advocate, and statesman during the American Civil War. He was born a slave in Maryland, as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.

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Birth Name: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey

Alternative Names: Frederick Augustus Washington Baly • Fred Bailey • Freddie Bailey

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The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I do not ask you about the dead past. I bring you to the living present.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. - Frederick Douglass

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