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The liberty the founders bequeathed is shared by free Americans, not by the slave
Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
What Frederick Douglass actually said
- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me.
Where this was said
↗What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (Rochester, 5 July 1852)en.wikisource.org
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