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“The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.”

— Frederick Douglass

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Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass
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Context

Speech at the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society annual meeting, New York City (May 1853)

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Douglass, Frederick. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

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