Link of the Day: Frederick Douglass

July 4, 2021 at 11:28 pm (Artists and Writers, Holidays, Links, Recommended, Sayings, Sundays)
Tags: Events, Fourth of July, inspirations, lithub, summer, US history

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the 600-odd members of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Central New York and delivered what would become one of his most famous speeches, best known today as “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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