A Blended Race

My strongest conviction as to the future of the negro therefore is, that he will not be expatriated nor annihilated, nor will he forever remain a separate and distinct race from the people around him, but that he will be absorbed, assimilated, and will only appear finally, as the Phoenicians now appear on the shores of the Shannon, in the features of a blended race…

Frederick Douglass, “The Future of the Colored Race,” North American Review, Number 142 (May 1886): 437-440.

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