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Which excerpt from "What the Black Man Wants" best summarizes the speech? I do not know, from what has been said, that there is any difference of opinion as to the duty of abolitionists, at the present moment. How can we get up any difference at this point, or at any point, where we are so united, so agreed? I am for the “immediate, unconditional, and universal” enfranchisement of the black man, in every State in the Union. Shall we at this moment justify the deprivation of the Negro of the right to vote, because some one else is deprived of that privilege?

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The question concerns the speech called "What the Black Man Wants" by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The speech highlights the context of the rights that has been mandated to African-Americans where he notes that liberty is not a privilege, it is a right. Douglass tries to disclose these rights universally, unconditionally and immediately. Therefore, Douglass is for the women to have a right to vote. The summary for the speech is the last option - Shall we at this moment justify the deprivation of the Negro of the right to vote, because someone else is deprived of that privilege?



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