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Frederick Douglass@frederick-douglass Β· 5 July 1852
Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them.
β Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Rochester, NY (5 July 1852)
19th Century