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Frederick Douglass' Dream for Equality


Abolition stopped Frederick Douglass dead in his tracks and forced him
to reinvent himself. He learned the hard central truth about abolition. Once
he learned what that truth was, he was compelled to tell it in his speeches and
writings even if it meant giving away the most secret truth about himself. From
then on, he accepted abolition for what it was and rode the fates.
The truth he learned about abolition was that it was a white enterprise.
It was a fight between whites. Blacks joined abolition only on sufferance.
They also joined at their own risks. For a long time, Douglass, a man of pride
and artfulness, denied this fact.
For years there had been disagreements among many abolitionists. Everyone
had their own beliefs towards abolition. There was especially great bitterness
between Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, dating from the early 1850's when
Douglass had repudiated Garrisonian Disunionism. Garrisonians supported......

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