Frederick Douglass, a self-emancipated slave from Talbot County, Maryland, delivers his “Antislavery Tocsin” speech in Rochester, New York, equating slavery to the sin of idolatry (setting oneself up as a god in someone else’s life): “[S]ubjecting one man to the arbitrary control of another, it contravenes the first command of the Decalogue [Ten Commandments] …”
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The United States was never intended to be a democracy; what dictator Lincoln redefined (destroyed) was the American Republic. What we ‘enjoy’ now is a socialist/fascist democracy, actually an oligarchy of the Money Powers. –– JL
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Authority:
Article I of Amendment
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References:
Frederick Douglass, “An Antislavery Tocsin” speech in Rochester, New York, December 8, 1850, in John Blassingham, ed., The Frederick Douglass Papers, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), 2:260, 262.
George P. Fletcher, Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln redefined democracy, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), 101, 269.
Frederick Douglass – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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