How this 2,500-year-old Hebrew psalm still resonates with the oppressed
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On the anniversary of America s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm Psalm 137 best known for its opening line, By the rivers of Babylon, a centerpiece of his most famous speech, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
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