Podcasts that mention 📚 Great plea for freedom, read it and you cannot resist it by Frederick Douglass

you know they remind me of one of the greatest things ever written about freedom of speech was titled a plea for free speech by Frederick Douglas former slave of course become abolitionist one of my favorite figures from American history he took part in a abolitionist meeting in Boston and it was shut down by hecklers the pro-slavery hecklers who invaded this meeting and prevent it from taking place Frederick Douglass was so shocked by this that he wrote a plea for free speech in which he said

Brendan O'Neill mentions Frederick Douglass's writing 'A Plea for Free Speech' and the context in which it was written (an abolitionist meeting shut down by hecklers) to argue against modern informal censorship tactics.

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