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... speak in Nantucket , Douglass attended the meeting and was invited by a gentleman who had heard him address a company of colored people , to support the affirmations of the reformer by his testimony . Douglass told his story with power ...
... speak in Nantucket , Douglass attended the meeting and was invited by a gentleman who had heard him address a company of colored people , to support the affirmations of the reformer by his testimony . Douglass told his story with power ...
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... speak as I please of you . And judging others by myself , it's your vocation to be spaniels and doughfaces . ' " Ay , the bone that is thrown at us is good enough , unless we vindicate our right to speak , by speaking so loudly that ...
... speak as I please of you . And judging others by myself , it's your vocation to be spaniels and doughfaces . ' " Ay , the bone that is thrown at us is good enough , unless we vindicate our right to speak , by speaking so loudly that ...
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... speak amid innumerable calls to order , motions , interrup . tions , decisions , cries of " Go on , Phillips ! " " Put ' em out ! " etc. Finally he was excluded from the hall . The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention were in ...
... speak amid innumerable calls to order , motions , interrup . tions , decisions , cries of " Go on , Phillips ! " " Put ' em out ! " etc. Finally he was excluded from the hall . The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention were in ...
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The Revolutionary Tradition | 13 |
A New England Boyhood | 18 |
Harvard Days | 26 |
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