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Jul 4, 2023 · July 4, 2023. 41 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. 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 ...
Douglass criticized the hypocrisy of celebrating the Fourth of July as a nation's birthday while enslaving African Americans. He asked, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" and answered with his own experience and perspective.
4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history—the very ring---bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny . . . 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. To him, your
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Transcript of speech. " What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? " [1] [2] 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. [3] In the address, Douglass states that positive statements about perceived American values ...
- July 5, 1852
- Slavery in the United States
- Rochester, New York, United States
- Corinthian Hall
In June 1852, he delivered this Independence Day address to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. It became one of Douglass’s most famous speeches—criticizing the chasm between America’s Founding principles and the institution of slavery. In the speech, Douglass lamented that Independence Day wasn’t a day of celebration for ...
“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. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with
Jul 5, 2017 · Douglass denounced the hypocrisy of America celebrating freedom while enslaving millions of blacks. He argued that the Constitution was an antislavery document and that the Founders were heroes, not villains.
