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    BLACK AND BLUE

    Jan 12, 2021 2 minutes
    REVIEWED BY GORDON BERG

    “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 the earth or under the earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the United States.” Frederick Douglass uttered those stirring words

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