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"What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" posed Frederick Douglass to a gathering of 500-600 abolitionists in Rochester, N.Y., in 1852. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? " [1][2] 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 Society. [3] In the address, Douglass states that positive statements about perceived American values, such as liberty, citizenship, and 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. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. . . . I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. One-hundred-seventy-one Julys ago, the escaped slave-turned-orator-and-activist Frederick Douglass gave perhaps his most famous speech to a group of fellow abolitionists. He posed this question - what to the American slave is your Fourth of July? His address confronted the glaring hypocrisy of a day Happy Fourth of July! As we celebrate our country's independence and the promises she holds dear, we thought it fitting to bring you Frederick Douglass's speech, "The Meaning of July Fourth for That June, we asked five young descendants of Frederick Douglass to read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. It's a powerful, historical We asked five young descendants of Frederick Douglass to read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” It's a powerful, historical text that reminds us of the ongoing work of liberation. 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 169 years ago. Historian David W. Blight looks back on Frederick Douglass' "barnburner" of a speech, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” that he delivered on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, NY. This 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 170 years ago. Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist in the 1800s, participated in a video for NPR, in which they recite excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the One-hundred-seventy-one Julys ago, the escaped slave-turned-orator-and-activist Frederick Douglass gave perhaps his most famous speech to a group of fellow abolitionists. He posed this question History professor David Blight of Yale University talks with NPR's Noel King about what Independence Day meant to abolitionist Frederick Douglass and America's enslaved population. That June, we asked five young descendants of Frederick Douglass to read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?". It's a powerful, This speech would be remembered as one of the most poignant addresses by Douglass, a former slave turned statesman. Douglass gave it on July 5, refusing to celebrate the Fourth of July until all slaves were emancipated. On July 3, 165 years later, the same question was posed on a stage in the basement of the National Archives, in Washington, D.C. 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 170 years ago. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. We asked five young descendants of Frederick Douglass to read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which asks all of us to consider America’s long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans. Reporter Anderson Allen gets reflections on the 150th anniversary of the speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July' given by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852.
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