The nation marked “Juneteenth” – the anniversary of the last Civil War slaves to learn they’d been freed – last week. The Atlas Society has put together a stirring video on just what that freedom represented, telling it through the eyes of famous abolitionist and freed slave Frederick Douglass.
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