three-fifths of a human being. i'm a full human being. that this is an argument used even today that frederick douglas corrected. tell me the story. >> what happened after he escaped in 1938, he ended up in new york. in new york, he gets approached by the anti-slavery folks. and massachusetts society hears him do his testimony. they said oh, man, you got to speak for us. in the meantime, they say you know, you need to overthrow the constitution, because the constitution is a slavery document, the founders gave us slavery in the document. he believed that. bless his heart, when the massachusetts anti-slavery society said we want to pay you to go on the road full-time, he said okay, i got to make sure i know this stuff. he sat down and read the constitution for himself. not what they taught him. he read it himself and he comes out around epiphany and
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