I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. …

Frederick Douglass
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I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death. ✨ Frederick Douglass (1994). Autobiographies, p.409, Library of America
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I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death. ✨ Frederick Douglass (1994). Autobiographies, p.409, Library of America

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