I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored ma…

Frederick Douglass
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I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. ✨ Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.
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I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. ✨ Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.

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