Frederick Douglass' admonition on the moral rightness of liberty for all
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Independence Day event in 1852 by abolitionist Frederick Douglass."It is the birthday of your national independence, and of your political freedom," he said, noting, "The distance between this platform and the slave plantation from which I escaped is considerable."Today, across Massachusetts, communities come together to read the speech aloud during the July Fourth holiday. To him, your celebration is a sham."Roy said, "When Douglass points to the injustice and the cruelty to which they were subjected in 1852, I couldn't help but draw an immediate line to our present day.
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