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  1. Frederick Douglass's "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" Speech

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  2. Frederick Douglas Speech: What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of

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  3. Frederick Douglass: What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July

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  4. Frederick Douglass Fourth Of July Speech

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  5. VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' descendants deliver his 'Fourth of July

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  6. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro. A speech given by Frederick

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  1. Fourth of July?”: Annotated">“What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?”: Annotated

    On Monday, July 5 1852 Frederick Douglass gave a speech to the “Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society,” which arguably became his most famous public oration. Rather than a celebration of the Independence Day holiday, Douglass asked an obvious, simple and damning question: What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July? Weekly Newsletter.

  2. Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July ...">Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July ...

    What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

  3. Fourth of July?”">A Nation's Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

    On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration and asked, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Douglass was a powerful orator, often traveling six months out of the year to give lectures on abolition.

  4. Fourth of July? - Wikipedia">What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Wikipedia

    "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" was a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society.

  5. Fourth of July? (1852)">What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)

    In the speech, Douglass lamented that Independence Day wasn’t a day of celebration for enslaved people. At the same time, he urged his audience to read the U.S. Constitution not as a pro-slavery document, but as a “GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT.”

  6. Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the slave is the ...">Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the slave is the ...

    During an Independence Day celebration in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivers what would become his most celebrated speech, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July ...

  7. Frederick Douglass 4th of July Speech | Transcripts">Frederick Douglass 4th of July Speech | Transcripts

    Full transcript of the famous speech “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” by Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass: ( 00:26 ) Fellows citizens, pardon me and allow me to ask, why am I called to speak here today?

  8. Speech: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July ...">Behind the Speech: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July ...

    Pulitzer-winning Frederick Douglass biographer David Blight explains what to know about the famous speech, and why its message still endures.

  9. 4th of July?”">“What, to the American Slave, Is Your 4th of July?”

    On July 5, 1852, eminent African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a brilliant speech that was a powerful indictment of American slavery and racism. Read the speech as printed within days in his own newspaper.

  10. Fourth of July?' By ... - NPR">WATCH: 'What to the slave is the Fourth of July?' By ... - NPR

    VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' descendants deliver his 'Fourth of July' speech. In the summer of 2020, the U.S. commemorated Independence Day amid nationwide protests for racial justice and...