We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those who fought against it.

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Topic

Racial equality

Speaker

Frederick Douglass

Source

Speeches of Frederick Douglass

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Black activist Abolitionist Activist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Speech at the World's Columbian Exposition. World's Columbian Exposition. 25 Aug. 1893, Chicago, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Quoted in From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature, written by Randall Fuller. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Medium
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Genre
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