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  1. "The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe." — #FrederickDouglass #BlackHistory

  2. #FotoVorschlag

    “Chic”

    Frederick Douglass’ first pocket watch. Douglass wrote that, for a formerly enslaved man, it was more than just a fashionable item — it was a powerful sign that he was free and that his time was now his own.

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    #photography #history #blackhistory #frederickdouglass #watch #watches #museum #metmuseum