More from Frederick Douglass

  1. I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and prog…
  2. There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be…
  3. You profess to believe 'that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,' and hath commanded all men,…
  4. At one time Mr. Douglass was travelling in the state of Pennsylvania, and was forced, on account of his colour, to ride in the baggage-car,…
  5. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross inju…
  6. At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, …
  7. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave's point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondm…
  8. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of libert…

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