Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Frederick Douglass
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! ✨ What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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