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When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

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Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852. Fellow-citizens, pardon ...

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