Owen D. Corpin will deliver parts of Douglass’ Fifth of July speech on Saturday, July 5 at 2 p.m. at the Peterboro United ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 168 years ago.

Two years before Douglass' famed speech, the U.S. government passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners. For decades, slaves fled the South ...

The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will hold its annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address “What to ...

In a little-known speech, Frederick Douglass sketched a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Douglass, subject of a new film, spoke with uncanny precision about ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, ... Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a leading spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and for racial ...

In preparation for Independence Day, some of us ritualistically reread Frederick Douglass’s greatest speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” That speech, which Douglass delivered ...

Local Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July speech called out America for its hypocrisy. Trump’s takeover of the holiday shows we haven’t learned much.

The five young descendants reflect on how Frederick Douglass' speech is still relevant in today's culture rooted with systemic racism As Americans around the nation mark the Fourth of July, people ...

Frederick Douglass had a deep connection to Elmira. In his escape from slavery in 1838, he was helped along by local abolitionist Jervis Langdon of nearby Millport, New York. -- Elmira city ...

The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.

Frederick Douglass asked in a historic speech nearly 200 years ago, and Boston readers asked the same again to a crowd gathered in Downtown Crossing early Tuesday afternoon.