Black and white portrait of an older man with white hair and beard, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, looking seriously at the camera against a plain background. The somber expression evokes the gravity found in “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass.

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass

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“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852Mr. 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

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