Frederick Douglass: “There was no reason why I should be the thrall of any man.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

There was no reason why I should be the thrall of any man.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

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Douglass declares his conviction that no man should be enslaved, asserting his right to freedom.

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