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My Bondage and My Freedom

A work by Frederick Douglass

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  • What korrents draws from it

    The Fourth of July is his free audience's celebration, not his; they may rejoice, while he must mourn, America is false to its past and present declarations of liberty, and binds itself to be false to the future, Where everything is plain, there is nothing to be argued …

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    Frederick Douglass

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Key facts

Claims on korrents
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What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. The Fourth of July is his free audience's celebration, not his; they may rejoice, while he must mourn (opens korrents.com)1

  2. America is false to its past and present declarations of liberty, and binds itself to be false to the future (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Where everything is plain, there is nothing to be argued (opens korrents.com)1

  4. For now, it is enough to affirm the equal humanity of the Black race (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Every man alive knows that slavery is wrong for himself (opens korrents.com)1

  6. What is inhuman cannot be divine (opens korrents.com)1

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Sources

  1. My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)

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