Frederick Douglass on Slavery and Regional Differences:

(From Frederick Douglass, "Fighting the Rebels with One Hand: An Address Delivered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 14 January 1862" in Blassingame, ed., The Frederick Douglass Papers Series 1, vol. 3, 480.)

"What freedom is to the North as a generator of sentiment and ideas, that slavery is to the South. It is the treasure to which the Southern heart is fastened. It fashions all their ideas, and moulds all their sentiments. Politics, education, literature, morals, and religion in the South, all bear the bloody image and superscription of slavery. Here, then, are two direct, point-blank and irreconcilable antagonisms under the same form of government."



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