From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.


The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892), Part 2, Chapter 13: Vast Changes


From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.