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Frederick Douglass: “Among all the great capitals of the world it is preëminently the capital of free institutions.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Among all the great capitals of the world it is preëminently the capital of free institutions.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context

From his autobiography, Douglass declares the national capital to be the foremost center of free institutions globally.

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