FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S “FOURTH OF JULY” SPEECH (1852). July 5 1852. Mr. President
President Friends and Fellow Citizens: …This
A feeling has crept over me quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and
the Slave Is the Fourth of July” a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5
You will not therefore
Douglass delivered his speech on Monday July 5
The Oxford Frederick Douglass reader / edited with an introduction he oration "What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
What to the Negro is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass. July 5 1852. (abridged). The fact is
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The speech itself: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” • The basics of Douglass's life: o 1838: Frederick Bailey escapes from slavery and settles in