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The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

Frederick Douglass

Liberty, Purpose, Slavery

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

Frederick Douglass

Liberty, Purpose, Slavery

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Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Frederick Douglass

Teacher, Purpose, Cost

Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.72, Frederick Douglass