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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.
"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.
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?
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.
The Martha's Vineyard Times20th anniversary of Frederick Douglass speech reading - The Martha's Vineyard Times
The 20th anniversary of the July Fourth reading of Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave Is ...
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Jun 26, 2020 · Pulitzer-winning Frederick Douglass biographer David Blight explains what to know about the famous speech, and why its message still endures.
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.”
He was invited to give a fourth of July speech by the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester. In the early 1850s, tensions over slavery were high across the county. The Compromise of 1850 had failed to resolve the controversy over the admission of new slaveholding states to the Union.
Over the course of five lessons, students will read, analyze, and gain a clear understanding of “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852. The first four lessons require students to read excerpts from the speech “like a detective.”
Michael Crutcher will present “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? ”at 11 a.m. on the front porch of Frederick Douglass’s home, Cedar Hill, on July 4. Following the speech, DC Strings Workshop will perform selections popular in Douglass’s era.
Jun 28, 2019 · In an Independence Day address in 1852, abolitionist movement leader Frederick Douglass famously asked a gathering in Rochester, New York “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”
