Frederick Douglass' iconic speech on slavery and the Declaration of ...

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of ...

Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion ...

Frederick Douglass's, “What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

At the time of the delivery of this speech, Douglass had been living in Rochester, New York for several years editing a weekly abolitionist newspaper. He was ...

A Nation's Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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 ...

Frederick Douglass' iconic speech on slavery and the Declaration of ...

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S “FOURTH OF JULY” SPEECH (1852)

By an act of the American Congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and revolting form. ... Slave Law” as a declaration ...

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) | Constitution Center

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— ...

Frederick Douglass speech - PBS

On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It ...

Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the slave is the Fourth of ...

Douglass's powerful speech came more than a decade before the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which would abolish slavery in the U.S. During ...

Frederick Douglass, Fifth of July speech (1852) - House Divided

Frederick Douglass, delivered this speech, sometimes called, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” or the Fifth of July speech, on July 5, 1852, in ...

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | Teaching American History

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999), 188-206. http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945 · 1.

Reading to explore the resonance of Douglass' famous speech

Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in 1852, drawing parallels between the Revolutionary War and the ...

What to the Slave is the 4th of July? - Frederick Douglass National ...

For this Fourth of July 1852, America's most famous Black man was asked to do what he had done many times before: stand on the stage of ...

James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech

... Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" He was addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery ...

Frederick Douglass Speech - The Hypocrisy of American Slavery

Standing here, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of ...

Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July (1852 ...

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— ...

Africans in America/Part 4/Frederick Douglass speech - PBS

My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing there ...

Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave..." - Lesson Plan

At the invitation of the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New ...

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Wikipedia

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, the Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass ...

July 4 is an appropriate time to remember Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" The speech is ...

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Frederick Douglass's Most Famous Speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom.