The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.
Jon Grinspan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2024
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City News Service,
Orange County Register,
12 Jan. 2025
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