No, it is false that major challenges facing freed blacks after emancipation included the burdens brought on by the sudden accumulation of wealth and property because the blacks remained very poor.
The concept that many political leaders thought would help end the slavery issue was the concept of "popular sovereignty, meaning that the inhabitants of each new state would choose to be "slave" or "free".
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Douglass's speech proclaims that the treatment of African Americans directly contradicts the Declaration of Independence.