This former slave became one the most influential abolitionists of the 19th century.

Frederick Douglass was renowned for his powerful and eloquent oratory, such as in this excerpt from an 1852 speech: "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham. . ."

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