Yes, he did ...

Long before Barack Obama wrote about the audacity of hope, Frederick Douglass lived it. Dan Buckley hails the greatness of a man whose only weapons were self-belief and powerful words

Yes, he did ...

”I came a slave; I go back a free man.

I came here a thing – I go back a human being.”

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