• queermunist she/her
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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.