In the national District of Columbia, over which the star-spangled emblem is constantly waving, where orators are ever holding forth on the subject of American liberty, American democracy, American republicanism, there are two slave prisons.
In his autobiography, Douglass exposes the hypocrisy of slavery existing in the nation's capital, a supposed beacon of liberty.
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