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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32710840

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered his famous “What to the American slave is your 4th of July?” speech in Rochester, NY.

“I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”

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