"He treated me as a man... He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins."
— Frederick Douglass

January 1, 1970

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Civil rights activistsEditors from the United StatesAbolitionistsPublishers from the United StatesJournalists from Maryland
Original Language: English

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About Abraham Lincoln (1864), as quoted in Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, by Eric Foner, p. 6