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
President Friends and Fellow Citizens: …This
FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S “FOURTH OF JULY” SPEECH (1852). July 5 1852. Mr. President
You will not therefore
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
the Slave Is the Fourth of July” a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5
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What to the Negro is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass. July 5 1852. (abridged). The fact is
Frederick Douglass's. "What to A Slave is the Fourth of July? ... Douglass delivered his speech on Monday July 5
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass July 5 1852 (What follows is an abridged version Abridged by Janet Gillespie Director of
The freedom gained is yours; and you therefore may properly celebrate this anniversary The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history—the
The Oxford Frederick Douglass reader / edited with an introduction York on July 5 1852 is the most famous antislavery speech Douglass ever gave
That I am here to---day is to me a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude You will not therefore be surprised if in what I have to say I evince
The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me This Fourth [of] July is yours not mine You may rejoice I must mourn
On July 5 1852 Frederick Douglass addressed an audience at the from What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? 289 this section of the speech?
As part of such efforts Douglass delivered this speech to the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester New York Northwestern New York was
Foner has called "probably the most moving passage in all of Douglass' speeches " What to the American slave is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals
At the invitation of the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society Frederick Douglass delivered this speech on July 5 1852 at Corinthian Hall in Rochester New
The rich inheritance of justice liberty prosperity and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you not by me The sunlight that brought light