Frederick Douglass · Politics
Douglass broke painfully with his own movement over a single question: was the United States Constitution a pro-slavery pact to be burned, or an anti-slavery charter to be wielded? His answer reshaped abolition - and his own life.
You learned that Douglass changed his mind about the Constitution. In your own words, what was the difference between reading it by the framers’ intentions and reading it by its plain words?
Leads to John Locke.
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