Weary of hearing the so-called Negro problem explained by Southern and Northern white men, Douglass gives a Black man’s view. He answers the charges used to justify lynching, traces the stages of persecution since emancipation, defends Black suffrage against attempts to abridge it, rejects colonisation schemes and sets out how the problem could truly be solved.
Among the last major writings of the great abolitionist, as urgent and eloquent as anything he wrote. Download the free EPUB.