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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) 1 Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day.

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Although many Americans identify July 4 as their Independence Day, many others look at this date with an entirely different context. In 1852, the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society asked Frederick Douglass to deliver a Fourth of July address.

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What is now known as the What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? speech was delivered on July 5, 1852 as an address to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York. Before you read the speech you can follow these links to learn more about Douglass’s life and the evolution of his thought in this period.

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? is the title now given to a speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, addressing the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. The speech is perhaps the most widely known of all of Frederick Douglass’ writings save his autobiographies.

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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 Programming, … The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history – the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny.

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In Rochester, before an audience composed of President Millard Fillmore, numerous politicians from Washington, and a contingent of fellow abolitionists, Douglass delivered a tirade entitled What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?. One of Douglass’s central strategies as a reformer was agitation, and on July 5th, 1852, Douglass agitated …

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Slave Is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass sought not only to convince people of the wrongfulness of slavery but also to make abolition more acceptable to Northern whites. Text Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852

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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.

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3 juil. 2020In the summer of 2020, the U.S. commemorated Independence Day amid nationwide protests for racial justice and systemic reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s death. That June, we asked five young…

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Biblical Allusions: Douglass’s chief source of allusions in What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? is the Bible. Alluding to biblical material was an intelligent strategy, since Douglass’s audience was composed largely of Christians, and even non-believers would have been familiar with the content of the Bible.