19th Century

Poetry

Bury Me in a Free Land

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born free on September 24, 1825, and died on February 22, 1911. She was a…

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Speeches

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

Frederick Douglass delivered a speech that we now call “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” on July…

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