ART History | JULY 5, 1852: FREDERICK DOUGLASS DELIVERS SPEECH, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a keynote address known as the “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” speech to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York.

Frederick Douglass Ambrotype, 1856

“The Fourth of July,” The North Star (Rochester, N.Y.), July 7, 1848, p. 2.

A Voice Ringing O’er the Gale! The Oratory of Frederick Douglass Read by Ossie Davis ℗ 2009

Images: In the Public Domain | Frederick Douglass ft. Ossie Davis, ℗ 2009 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Released on: 2009-06-30 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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