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Americans condemn the foreign slave trade but treat the domestic one as honorable
Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
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What Frederick Douglass actually said
- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
It is, however, a notable fact that, while so much execration is poured out by Americans upon those engaged in the foreign slave-trade, the men engaged in the slave-trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business is deemed honorable.
Where this was said
↗What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (Rochester, 5 July 1852)en.wikisource.org
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