Manumitted slaves still lacked full rights as persons and poets

Evidence

When Frederick Douglass embarked on his career as an antislavery orator, white people—even those who were passionate abolitionists—refused to believe that a black slave could display such intelligence. The belief in the permanence of slavery was so widespread that even white abolitionists found it difficult to imagine black people as equals. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 53 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enslaved people were human beings despite slavery’s alterations of their being; Even white abolitionists could not imagine black people as equals — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 53

Related

• Even white abolitionists could not imagine black people as equals (similarity 0.90)
• Northern abolitionists’ antislavery stance still confirmed blacks as foreign to America. (similarity 0.87)
• Abolitionists weaponized racial passing to challenge planters’ claims to whiteness (similarity 0.84)
• Enslaved people were human beings despite slavery’s alterations of their being (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Even white abolitionists could not imagine black people as equals #corroborates (0.60) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 53
• Enslaved people were human beings despite slavery’s alterations of their being #qualifies (0.40)