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As an African American prohibitionist, Frederick Douglass was in favor of the 18th Amendment because he ?

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Douglas believed that the right to liberty was a natural right, which had been clearly articulated in the Declaration of Independence. Disagreeing with Garrison, Douglas further believed that those who wrote the U.S. Constitution had intended to put slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.
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