"In the same book [The Columbian Orator], I met with one of Sheridan's mighty speeches on and in behalf of Catholic emancipation. These were choice documents to me. I read them over and over again with unabated interest. They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance. The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder. What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights."
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Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), pp. 39-40
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751 – 1816
irischer Dramatiker und Politiker
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