They Call Me Dr. Breaux on Nostr: WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? [Excerpt] Frederick Douglass Rochester, July ...
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? [Excerpt]
Frederick Douglass
Rochester, July 5, 1852
Fellow-Citizens
Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?
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Frederick Douglass
Rochester, July 5, 1852
Fellow-Citizens
Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?
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