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by wombatmobile 1627 days ago
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

by Frederick Douglass

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass...

"Upon finishing his speech to the six hundred or so mostly white abolitionists, Douglas was met with “a universal burst of applause” and seven hundred copies of the above-featured pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot."