We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we…

Douglass, Frederick. Quoted in From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature, written by Randall Fuller. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Douglass, Frederick. Speech at the World's Columbian Exposition. World's Columbian Exposition. 25 Aug. 1893, Chicago, IL, USA.

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