• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      It’s a pretty famous speech given by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who was asked to give a July 4th address. He escaped slavery and became a self-taught abolitionist, suffragette, radical reconstruction politician, preacher, and author.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        thank you! That is an interesting character to read about. Makes me despise people all the more (if that was possible) who thought / think that they can own other people’s lives.