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Ep. 190 Free speech and Abolitionism

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

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The Trial of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass spoke at Boston's Tremont Temple Baptist Church in 1860. He was greeted by a violent mob, which took the stage and shouted down the meeting. Six days later, on December 9, he gave an impassioned oratory on free exchange of ideas. It might be the most important defense of free speech in American history.

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