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The Continental Congress, a precursor to the modern American congress, was the legislative body for the 13 colonies and, later, the United States during the Revolutionary War. In his speech, Douglass is mainly concerned with the Second Continental Congress, which served as the United States government during the Revolutionary War. When America won the Revolutionary War, it was the Second Continental Congress that drafted and approved the Declaration of Independence.
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...Founding Fathers were able to obtain independence. He describes how, on July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress drafted the Declaration of Independence. From the Declaration, Douglass quotes the specific passage that grants...
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