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Hearing slave songs may convey slavery's horror to some better than volumes of philosophy
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- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
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↗Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)gutenberg.org
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