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Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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