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Kopel: The Second Amendment Meant No Person in the U.S. Could Be a Slave

By Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist. – http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c05555Harper’s weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473., Public Domain, Link Just a few weeks after the Confederate States surrendered at Appomattox, Frederick Douglass declared: Now, while…

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