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What to a slave is the 4th of July? https://youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM https://youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM

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  for those who prefer text: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to... Although I largely concur with Douglass, he does seem a bit disingenuous about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise in discussing the Constitution. Further reading indicates that's a deliberate stance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#Return_to_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#Return_to_t... "To side with the right, against the wrong, with the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor! here lies the merit, and the one which, of all others, seems unfashionable in our day." (that day being 1852)