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Frederick Douglass: “Elsewhere we may belong to a section, but here we belong to a whole country, and the whole country belongs to us.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Elsewhere we may belong to a section, but here we belong to a whole country, and the whole country belongs to us.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context

From his autobiography, Douglass highlights how the national capital fosters a sense of belonging to the entire country, transcending sectional divisions.

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