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The Most Sacred Right (2020)

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The Composite Nation

"The revolution, wrought in our condition by the 15th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is almost startling," he says. "When we think through what labors, tears, and precious blood, it has come, we may well contemplate it with a solemn joy." Douglass: We stand between the populous shores of two great oceans. Our land is capable of supporting one-fifth of all the globe. Europe and Africa are already here; the Indian was here before either.

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