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This is a much
more militant Douglass as an abolitionist,
and when he returns, he goes out
on the circuit immediately, speech-making, but in those speeches,
he starts with lines like, "My country hates me.
I hate it back." He was young, he was outraged, he was powerful, and he wasn't
gonna take it anymore
more militant Douglass as an abolitionist,
and when he returns, he goes out
on the circuit immediately, speech-making, but in those speeches,
he starts with lines like, "My country hates me.
I hate it back." He was young, he was outraged, he was powerful, and he wasn't
gonna take it anymore
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This is a much
more militant Douglass
00:00:03.875 --> 00:00:06.875
as an abolitionist,
and when he returns,
00:00:06.959 --> 00:00:09.000
he goes out
on the circuit immediately,
00:00:09.917 --> 00:00:11.000
speech-making,
00:00:11.084 --> 00:00:13.376
but in those speeches,
he starts with lines like,
00:00:13.459 --> 00:00:15.668
"My country hates me.
I hate it back."
00:00:15.075 --> 00:00:17.833
He was young,
00:00:17.917 --> 00:00:20.000
he was outraged,
00:00:20.084 --> 00:00:22.709
he was powerful,
00:00:22.792 --> 00:00:24.792
and he wasn't
gonna take it anymore.
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Movie Summary
Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.