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Frederick Douglass Quote - Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Frederick Douglass

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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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