Negroes are people, they are included in the benefits for which the Constitution of America was ordained and established. But how dare any man who pretends to be a friend to the Negro thus gratuitously concede away what the Negro has a right to claim under the Constitution?

— Frederick Douglass The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (1860)

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