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But all he had to do, someone could go back in time
and say, "Fred, don't despair." "You know, hang around.
White supremacy's just asleep, and it's not going to be
asleep for very long." Holland:
The Emancipation Proclamation
had given slavery many deadly wounds, yet it was, in fact,
only wounded and crippled, not disabled and killed. ♪ ♪ Though slavery was abolished, the wrongs of my people
were not ended. Though they were not slaves,
they were not yet quite free. I therefore soon found that
the Negro had still a cause, and that he needed my voice
and my pen to plead for it
and say, "Fred, don't despair." "You know, hang around.
White supremacy's just asleep, and it's not going to be
asleep for very long." Holland:
The Emancipation Proclamation
had given slavery many deadly wounds, yet it was, in fact,
only wounded and crippled, not disabled and killed. ♪ ♪ Though slavery was abolished, the wrongs of my people
were not ended. Though they were not slaves,
they were not yet quite free. I therefore soon found that
the Negro had still a cause, and that he needed my voice
and my pen to plead for it
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But all he had to do,
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someone could go back in time
and say, "Fred, don't despair."
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"You know, hang around.
White supremacy's just asleep,
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and it's not going to be
asleep for very long."
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Holland:
The Emancipation Proclamation
had given slavery
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many deadly wounds,
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yet it was, in fact,
only wounded and crippled,
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not disabled and killed.
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♪ ♪
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Though slavery was abolished,
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the wrongs of my people
were not ended.
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Though they were not slaves,
they were not yet quite free.
00:00:33.375 --> 00:00:38.208
I therefore soon found that
the Negro had still a cause,
00:00:38.292 --> 00:00:41.292
and that he needed my voice
and my pen
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to plead for it.
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Movie Summary
Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
