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there are not only a variety of ancillary documents,
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Douglass's greatest speech is also included.
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A word on that. It's Douglass's 4th of July Speech.
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If you've never read it, you should read it.
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It is the rhetorical masterpiece of American abolitionism,
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one of the greatest works of oratory in American history.
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It was Frederick Douglass
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as Beethoven on steroids, but with language.
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It's like a symphony in three movements;
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I say that in a little head-note introduction to it.
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He gave that speech in 1852.
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I may refer to it at the end of this lecture,