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Here’s the Frederick Douglass Speech to Revisit This July 4th

Literary Hub 02 July 2026 13h ago
Here’s the Frederick Douglass Speech to Revisit This July 4th
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Frederick Douglass’ great lecture “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” delivered on July 5th, 1852, to a predominantly white audience at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall, captured the contradictions built into the nation’s July Fourth celebrations, then and to
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