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Frederick Douglass, anti-slavery organizer and journalist. His July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, New York is still cited some 161 years later.

Frederick Douglass' statements in his speech to the Women's Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852, still has relevance to race-relations in the United States some 161 years later. Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland and later became an abolitionist campaigner in Ireland and the United States.

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Uploaded on July 4, 2007
Taken on July 4, 2007