Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist reformer, writer and orator.
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‘I Must Mourn’: Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of July 4th to the Slave
These words, spoken in 1852, are relevant to modern U.S. society mired in the legacies of slavery and racist brutality.
Frederick Douglass
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