Speech By Fredrick Dourglass

Once let the Black Man get upon his person the brass letters U.S., let him get an eagle on his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to full citizenship in the United State. Douglass addressing former slaves before going into the Civil War.

Frederick Douglass

Posted by: New Jersey State Library (c. Lawrence E. Walker Foundation Collection)