Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

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And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

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Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

Frederick Douglass asked a burning question in front of hundreds of abolitionists in Rochester, New York: “What to the Slave ...