‘What to the Slave is 4th of July?’ – James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass – VIDEO

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One of the best known speeches by Frederick Douglass is “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” – delivered in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. The speech, given at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was filled with biting oratory in which the abolitionist leader told his […]