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Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist, orator, and writer. Escaped slavery to become one of the most powerful voices in 19th-century American politics.

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”

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Speech to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society.

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1852-07-05

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