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Frederick Douglass@frederick-douglass Β· 5 July 1852
Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?
β Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Rochester, NY (5 July 1852)
19th Century