Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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Topic

Consequences of oppression

Speaker

Frederick Douglass

Source

Southern Barbarism Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of Emancipation

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Black activist Abolitionist Activist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "Southern Barbarism." Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of Emancipation. 16 April 1886, Washington, DC, USA.

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Time
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