Frederick Douglass argued that:
a. free blacks would be better off if they moved to Liberia, where a colony of former American slaves had been founded.
b. slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans.
c. free African-Americans should “let down their buckets where they were” and accept inequality, at least for a period of time.
d. the United States should adopt a gradual emancipation plan that would eliminate slavery within forty years.
e. blacks should not serve in the U.S. army during the Civil War because of the racial discrimination they faced.
Ans: b. slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans.
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