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(1838) James McCune Smith, “The Abolition Of Slavery And The Slave Trade In The French And British Colonies”
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(1833) Maria W. Stewart, “An Address at the African Masonic Hall”
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(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”
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(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
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(1988) Rev. Jesse Jackson, “Keep Hope Alive.”
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(2017) New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Address on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
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