On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
That message liberated, set free, and brought within the pale of civilization eight hundred thousand people, who, till then, had been esteemed as beasts of burden.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass recounts the profound effect of the British emancipation decree, which freed hundreds of thousands of people previously treated as property.
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