“In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.”

—  Frederick Douglass

Speech at the Convention of Colored Men, Louisville, Kentucky (24 September 1883).
1880s, Speech at the Convention of Colored Men (1883)

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American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818–1895

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