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Frederick Douglass@frederick-douglass Β· 5 July 1852
I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me.
β Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Rochester, NY (5 July 1852)
19th Century