All Posts Tagged With: "Frederick Douglass"
Top 5 Inaugural Addresses: No. 1
Editor’s note: This week we are counting down the top five inaugural addresses in U.S. history. At number one is Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. Below, the historian Christine Dee of Fitchburg State College explains the importance of Lincoln’s address. Dee’s complete analysis of the document can be downloaded at MilestoneDocuments.com or Amazon.com.
As one of [...]
Doc of the Day: July 5
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered his “Fourth of July” speech to a meeting of the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York. (See Bradley Skelcher’s post about this speech.)
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Bradley Skelcher on Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered what came to be known as the “Fourth of July” Speech to the Ladies’ Antislavery Society in Rochester, New York. Refusing to speak the day before, Douglass began by admonishing the crowd with a series of questions. He asked, “Why am I called to speak here today? What [...]
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