On the record
I am glad the time has come when the “lions write history.” We have been left long enough to gather the character of slavery from the involuntary evidence of the masters.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgI am glad the time has come when the “lions write history.” We have been left long enough to gather the character of slavery from the involuntary evidence of the masters.
Douglass expresses his relief that those who have experienced oppression are finally able to narrate their own histories.
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