Fredric Douglass is his rebuke of the Dred Scott vs. Alex. Sandford, Saml. Russell, and Irene Emerson, trial, after noting the atrocities of slavery sums up his argument by imploring the leaders of the country to live up to the tenets expressed in the constitution of the United States and end the hypocrisy that slavery represents. The notion that free African-Americans that had been elevated from slavery, whether through escape or manumission, were unhampered by the racism of the country was debunked in the article: An Unsecure People: Free Negroes in America. The article gives numerous examples of the “segregation, employment discrimination, disenfranchisement and restrictions on personal