What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a speech by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Frederick Douglass became a prominent orator and autobiographer who spearheaded the American abolitionist movement in the mid nineteenth century. In this famous speech, published widely in pamphlet form after it was given to a meeting of the Rochester Ladies Anti Slavery Society on July 5th, 1852, Douglass exposes

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