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"I am determined wherever I go ... to speak with grateful emotions of Mr [Daniel] O’Connell’s labours. [Cheers] I heard his denunciation of slavery. I heard my master curse him, and therefore I loved him." [Great cheers] - Frederick Douglass: Cork speech, 1845.