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Frederick Douglass, in a speech before the Scottish Anti-Slavery Society, 1860

My position now is one of reform, not of revolution. I would act for the abolition of slavery through the Government — not over its ruins. If slaveholders have ruled the American Government for the last fifty years, let the anti-slavery men rule the nation for the next fifty years. If the South has made the Constitution bend to the purposes of slavery, let the North now make that instrument bend to the cause of freedom and justice. If 350,000 slaveholders have, by devoting their energies to that single end, been able to make slavery the vital and animating spirit of the American Confederacy for the last 72 years, now let the freemen of the North, who have the power in their own hands, and who can make the American Government just what they think fit, resolve to blot out for ever the foul and haggard crime, which is the blight and mildew, the curse and the disgrace of the whole United States.

Which later development best exemplifies Douglass’ point about the Constitution?

1. Plessy v. Ferguson
2. The Slaughterhouse cases
3. The 13th Amendment
4. Jim Crow laws

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The later development that best exemplifies Frederick Douglass' point about the Constitution is the 13th Amendment.
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. This amendment reflected the effort to use the government and the Constitution itself to abolish slavery and bring about freedom and justice, as advocated by Frederick Douglass in his speech before the Scottish Anti-Slavery Society.
Options 1, 2, and 4 (Plessy v. Ferguson, The Slaughterhouse cases, and Jim Crow laws) are associated with legal decisions and laws that perpetuated racial segregation and discrimination, which were contrary to Douglass' stance against slavery and injustice.

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