Rebels and Democrats

In a final analysis and evaluation of the Democratic and Whig programs, Douglass concludes that neither was adequate in itself to provide the freedom desired by the new nation but that the merging of the two laid the foundation for modern American democracy.

Originally published in 1955.

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