27 mars 1844 - Frederick Douglass

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Anti Slavery activist called the war cruel and disgraceful. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory. He supported abolition, the freeing of slaves, because he was a slave himself and he knew what it felt like. On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech that placed the shame of slavery on the whole nation, not just the South. He said:
Fellow Citizens: 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. . . .There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
I personally agree with him and I hope whenever somebody hears this they would agree with me.