“There is no race problem before the country, but only a political one, the question whether a Republican has any right to exist south of Mason and Dixon's line.”

— Frederick Douglass

1890s, Speech at Tremont Temple (1890)

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

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