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The essential insight in Frederick Douglass’s great Independence Day speech

Por: The Boston Globe Opinion July 02, 2023

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It was on July 5, 1852, that Frederick Douglass addressed the Ladies’ Antislavery Society in Rochester, N.Y., and delivered what is often described as . “What, to the American slave,” Douglass demanded of his audience, “is your Fourth of July?”It was not by happenstance that Douglass gave his renowned July 4 speech on the day after July 4. He had insisted on it. Ever since slavery had been abolished in the state of New York decades... + full article



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