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The Cheering Beams of Truth
Frederick Douglass was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, a true backwater of early slave society. At the time he's born, the Cotton Kingdom has been born. In the next three to four decades, it will grow into the single largest American crop and commodity by far. And slaves will become the single largest financial asset in the entire American economy.