“What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July?”

Speech, 1852: Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July” Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) was the best known and most influential African American leader of the 1800s. He was born a slave in Maryland but managed to escape to the North in 1838. He traveled to Massachusetts and settled in New Bedford, working […]

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