The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...

Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass first delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. It was part of ...

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 ...

Frederick Douglass in a sixth-plate daguerreotype, circa 1850. A new exhibit shows how the abolitionist crafted his image. (Mark Gulezian/National Portrait Gallery) ...

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton & Upton and the Grafton Public Library are hosting a public reading on July 5 ...

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.

The Speech That Launched Frederick Douglass’s Life as an Abolitionist. 9 minute read. A portrait of Frederick Douglass VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images. By Linda Hirshman. February 16, ...

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 ...

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. July 2, 2019 More than 5 years ago ...

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, whose birthday is honored on February 14, ... How Frederick Douglass’s first speech got him noticed. Paige Scofield. Thu, February 14, 2013 at 4:00 PM UTC.