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Jul 3, 2023 · UPDATED: 6:30 p.m. ET, July 3, 2023 —. In a very telling sign, the fateful words of Frederick Douglass from a speech he delivered nearly 171 years ago still resonate very much in 2023 as...
Jul 4, 2023 · 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?
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.
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The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852. This speech is now remembered as one of Douglass' most poignant. Read the address in full on PBS.
" 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. In the address, Douglass states that positive statements about perceived American values, such as liberty, citizenship, and freedom, were an offense to the enslaved ...
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852. INTRODUCTION (Exordium) 1. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) Frederick Douglass | 1852. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Summary. Frederick Douglass was born an enslaved person in Maryland, later escaping into freedom and emerging as one of the leading abolitionist voices in the nineteenth century.
