From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen. (Frederick Douglass)

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

Frederick Douglass

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