Frederick Douglass - I was today years old when I learned that the emancipation proclamation wasn’t out of the goodness of Abraham Lincoln’s heart, but out of the tenacity and work of Frederick Douglass, and out of Lincoln’s understanding that without black people, he would’ve lost the war.

4:51pm PST - November 17th, 2021

I was today years old when I learned that the emancipation proclamation wasn’t out of the goodness of Abraham Lincoln’s heart, but out of the tenacity and work of Frederick Douglass, and out of Lincoln’s understanding that without black people, he would’ve lost the war.

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