Frederick Douglass, about Abraham Lincoln (1864), as quoted in Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, by Eric Foner, p. 6.
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He treated me as a man... He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.
— Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln
What It Means
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About Frederick Douglass
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.
About Frederick Douglass
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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